How do I find out the angle of a wall or block? Like if my car is riding up hill and I want the car to tilt back or if one of the computer players is next to a wall I want his pan to be parallel to the wall. How do i do this?

what is it listed under in the manual??

Check out trace in the manual. That should help.

Jason

You have to work with NORMAL.
Get Normal by using TRACE or in the moment of a collision with a block.

the code is:
vec_to_angle(my.pan,normal.pan)

Can someone explane normal to me: what it is what it does? Because I have been trying to understand it from the manual but it is not making any sence.

A surface normal is a vector of length 1 perpendicular to that surface.

Jason

i know thats what it said in the manual but does that mean thta the vector holds the angle of the object that the trace event hit? Can you give me an example of what the normal would hold?

Example: If you send a trace toward the ground and the ground is flat (parallel with x and y axes) The normal from the trace would be the vector (0,0,1)... You can use the vec_to_angle command to compute the tilt and pan angles from the normal vector. This is my understanding... Please correct me if this is wrong.

Jason

create an objekt with the MDLeditor.
OPTIONS -> SHOW NORMALS -> ALL
Look at the objekts triangles. On this faces are blue/white lines, which
are "standing" on an triangle. This lines are called "normals"