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From: "Nick Slaven" <NickSlaven@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: Rotating about an arbitrary axis?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:53:08 +0100
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Robert Swan wrote in message <3607A680.5844@mdx.ac.uk>...
>James Russell wrote:
>> direction of the ball. Use RotMatrixX(RollAmount) followed by
RotMatrixY(CompassDirection) to create
>> such a matrix.
>
>james, let me know if this works. I (think) I had a problem with the
>seperate RotMarix functions and never went back to them (had to use the
>slower RotMatrix() a few times to get the same effect)


Me too, they seemed to completely distort the tmds (from what I remember) in
a
totally unexpected way, whilst rotmatrix always works.

Nick S