Is there any tutorial that explains how to roll a dice
and to be able to determine what number is thrown ?

thx in advantage : )

Hey man, what exactly you need? Can you describe it more in details.

Greest!

well i created a dice model so all the sides have a number 1 to 6
i want it that on a push of a key this model is thrown (Dropped from the sky) then rolls and a variable is showing the number that is thrown

there a lot of picture used dice examples but not for an actual 3D Dice

I'm not sure there is a made example. The number is easy to get. Use a second skin with 6 colors, color point up is == to the rolled number. The dice I'd give over to the physics engine instead of coding it. And for that I can strongly say 3run is the physics king!!


There are about 5 or so others ways to determine which side is facing up.
Used vertex numbers of the model
use the models pan/tile/roll numbers
use a color skin
I can think up many. But I've no idea the best or fastest.

I'just done the physical part, now thinking about how to determine what number is on the dice bone.. I think that I need to take two points (maybe vectors?) for this calculation, my math is pretty bad

Edit: almost got it working, I'll post a demo here soon!

I assume the BBox vectors are still valued.
get
my_x+my_max; my_y+my_max_y my.z+my_max_z
and min's ==6 points

rotate
by my.pan
for loop to find point with the highest world z
== side showing/facing up

I do it in different way, probably way to complex. But everyone will be free to edit the demo

As I promised, here is the working demo (available from my webpage):
Download link

I was making it too complicated.. It's probably too complicated even now, but it's the simplest way I can think of right now.
I'll be really grateful if anyone will share his/her more elegant way of determining which side is facing upwards.



Best regards!

^-- That's simple awesome!

Thank you man! I really hope that this will be useful!

Best regards!