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From: Andrew Murray <mad.max@which.net>
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Subject: Re: Pls help a 3dimensional newbie...
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 18:27:19 +0000
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I'm not 100% sure how to put this into code but I'd imagine that is you
make a "handler" of the object then make this handler in some way always
point towards this point, I advise taking a look at the camera viewpoint
settings as this can be done similar to what you are looking for.

Or am I talking crap?

Max

john.j@netway.at wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a (from my point of view - very) big problem 2 solve...
>
> I have a TMD (one single quad), and I want it to turn
> always in such a way that it's facing always to one point...
>
> Some examples:
>
>    P  .   .   .   |
>
>    P
>       .
>          .
>             .
>                /
>
> The quad is a child of a super.coord (not world),
> the point P is
>         case 1: from WORLD
>         case 2: any other coord.system
>
> My thoughts go in this way:
> 1) check if both (Point and quad) are members of the same coord.system
> 2) if not       - convert them to world (using GsGetLw)
> 3) check the coordinate differens (delta x, delta z)
> 4) calculate somehow the angle for the quad....
>
> As you can see, 3d is a very new terrain for me...
> Could somebody point me in the right direction???
>
> Many thanx in advance
> greetz JJoS
>
> btw: sorry for my bad english...   :)

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