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Code Snippets / Creating 'asteroids' style movement using vectors [DBP]

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ESC_
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 02:29
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This is just a quick tutorial I put together for people who want to create drifting and momentum in their games using vectors.

http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/vectors.zip

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Morales
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 03:16
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O_o still dont understand. lol
I rilly need to learn vectors. maybe this will help a little.
thanks for it thow!
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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 03:24
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Vectors are much easier than you'd think. All a vector is is an angle and a magnitude (amount of movement). You can also seperate them into their scalar components. There are all sorts of good explanations on the internet:

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~jenolive/homevec.html

http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/tutorials/vectors/vectors.html

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Posted: 13th Oct 2003 18:17
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Oh, forgot to mention that the ship's from
[href]http://twh.telefragged.com/2d/cannon.html [/href]

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 08:17
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worth a look. i'll get to it later, like everything else I do.
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 04:56
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MatriX
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Posted: 7th Nov 2003 05:41
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Thanks. I think that this explains alot.

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