Moving an entity in his local direction using a global vector

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Moving an entity in his local direction using a global vector #299056 11/20/09 18:41 11/20/09 18:41
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,438 Spain painkiller OP Serious User
painkiller OP Serious User Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,438 Spain	Hi, i want to move an entity towards the direction wich the entity is looking using global vectors. i've tested with this vector: Code: vector(cos(nave.pan)key_m, sin(nave.pan)key_m, sin(nave.tilt)*key_m) But in this code each axis depends only of one angle, but it must depend of two, for ex. axis X depends of the pan an tilt of the entity, axis Y depends also of pan and tilt, anz axis Z depends of tilt and roll. How I can do this? 3D Gamestudio A8 Pro AMD FX 8350 4.00 Ghz 16GB RAM Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 4GB

Re: Moving an entity in his local direction using a global vector [Re: painkiller] #299061 11/20/09 20:46 11/20/09 20:46
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XD1v0 Member Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 151 Ukraine	Try this Code: VECTOR dist; vec_set (dist,vector(100,0,0)); vec_rotate(dist,my.pan); vec_add (my.x,dist); // move entity on x axis in local coord A7 Commercial Celeron 1700, GeForce 5500 FX 256mb, 1 Gb Ram

Re: Moving an entity in his local direction using a global vector [Re: XD1v0] #299068 11/20/09 23:48 11/20/09 23:48
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,438 Spain painkiller OP Serious User
painkiller OP Serious User Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,438 Spain	it works perfect! thank you so much 3D Gamestudio A8 Pro AMD FX 8350 4.00 Ghz 16GB RAM Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 4GB