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DarkBASIC Discussion / drawing a line in 3d?

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louis dimsdale
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Posted: 4th Mar 2004 12:34
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this there a comman or way of drawing a line in 3d space?
for example, i what to have a water skier behind a speed boat.
i need to draw a line from the boat to the ski.

is the a command that i'm missing some where or some other way to do it??

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ross
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Jess T
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Posted: 4th Mar 2004 12:36
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There isn't a command, no...

But...

You can use the Make Object Triangle command and simply set two of the points at the same location, and set culling off.

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louis dimsdale
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thanks jess, i will give that a go.

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ross
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zircher
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What I normally do is create a long cube, place it at the midpoint between the two end points, and use point object to align it to one of the end points.

But in the case of a tow rope, it would be much more clever to make a chain and have it dynamically respond to swaying, jumps, etc. You can do this in many ways:

1. Use the above example to make a series of linked cubes.
2. Make a mesh object and dynamically tweak it inside of a memblock.
3. Create a series of triangles and adjust them on the fly.
4. Make a rope object and glue extra limbs to create a chain.

I'm sure there are other ways as well.
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