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Dark GDK / problem with dbObjectPositionX() function

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Slim Pimpin
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Posted: 8th Jan 2008 00:15
i am having some problems with the afore mentioned function in an automated pong game. my code is included and any help would be appreciated




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Pharoseer
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Posted: 8th Jan 2008 08:25 Edited at: 8th Jan 2008 08:25
Holy cow! That is really messed up! What did you DO?!?!?

Just kidding Slim, but that seemed really messed up at first glance. I thought you'd found a bug! The problem is in your initial rotation. You weren't rotating far enough around the Y axis. Perspective then makes it seem like the dbPositionX() function is not working right, but actually the ball is just moving further away from the camera.

Change the line:


To this:


And you should see a difference. Hope this helps!

-Frank
Slim Pimpin
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 01:42
that was seriously pissing me off. thank you again, you are a saviour to the dummy programmer

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Slim Pimpin
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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 03:32
ok, now that i have all of that figured out, now i have a new problem. i am having a problem with another angle related problem
the problem lies in the third collision test. the ball does not come back

here is my code



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