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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Locking a 3D Object to 6 snowflake angles

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 9th Mar 2011 18:53
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Imagine a Snowflake, a hexagon. I need to move all of my objects in 6 directions. Now rotate the snowflake in 3 more directions to make a Icosahedron sort of shape. The snowflake can also move at those directions. But the object is a sphere. It is like locking atoms together. I can't afford to use more polygons than a sphere, else I might aim the object towards 6 points. I don't know where to put those 6 points, and how to rotate them to the other points. I also need diagonal movement to be equal to X or Y movement, sometimes it is bigger.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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O.o what? Are we talking 2d or 3d?

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 9th Mar 2011 20:26 Edited at: 9th Mar 2011 22:21
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Sort of both. You have a choice of 6 angles per sync, but if two particles collide the 6 angles are rotated like a coin spinning on its edge, but in steps of another hexagon. Accidentally drew 8 rotations, need 6.



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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 9th Mar 2011 21:44 Edited at: 9th Mar 2011 21:46
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If somebody just knows what the angles are for overlapped Hexagons like that. So I can have a dim like this pseudo code..

Dim HexagonAngles(12,A,B,C)
If angle = 1
Point object current Object X-a,Y-b,Z-c

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Duke E
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Posted: 10th Mar 2011 09:55 Edited at: 10th Mar 2011 11:17
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Maybe something like this?
Assuming your example picture is looking from above (Y) the sphere.



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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 10th Mar 2011 18:58
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That's ace thanks!

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