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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / glue object to limb &scale object problem any help?

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The Cubist
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I have a model of a catapult that hurls balloons however when I glue the object to a limb on the arm of the catapult the balloon appears 450% larger than the actual size of the balloon. if i do not scale the balloon and glue it to the limb the size is correct until I unglue the object for release when it appears to be 450% smaller?
is this a bug?
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indi
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Posted: 14th Apr 2003 07:04
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when u glue something it takes on the internal sizes of the original model.

If u make a catapult model with tray that holds the ball and the centerpoint of that tray is in the center but elevated a little you can then place a catapult ball onto this centerpoint.

You will have to make the whole catapult with one ball.

then export it all except the ball

This will help to finalise the correct size.

export the ball at its centerpoint and within the centre of the new document and dont export it at the current location it is found on the catapult.

This should help with sizes.

I had a similar problem with hands and weapons

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The Cubist
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I need to make the size of the ball variable. thats what the prog is all about. is there any other way. by the way thanks for responding

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Posted: 14th Apr 2003 07:25
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u will have just have to find the range of 1db sphere and the size of your model.

Ive found that by starting at the size of 1db cube it helps to align BSP maps which are very small in conjunction with matrices that can be set to this size also.

keep shrinking your catapult until is about 2x2 db cubes in size then try and add a sphere.

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indi
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Posted: 14th Apr 2003 07:27
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or.

export as I said in the first place and use the scale options on that ball from its original size.

any scaling tho destroys any chance of collision and it will appear to only work on the original size. this was a DBC thing and I havent checked for it in DBP as yet.

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The Cubist
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I don't have a clue what that means Indi. No offense.

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Posted: 14th Apr 2003 07:39
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maybe someone else can explain it in a different way.

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