End points of a thin cylinder between two Entities
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| I would like to create two Spheres with a cylinder's end points between them.. No matter where the spheres are the Cylinder's end points with align to the centers of the spheres. What is a good method for this? Thanks, Eric |
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| 1) Create a cylinder. 2) Use ScaleMesh (not ScaleEntity) to shorten the cylinder to half its length. 3) Use PositionMesh to move the cylinder's mesh data so that the centre point of the mesh is now in the centre of one of the end discs (although actually you may as well have an open-ended cylinder since the ends will be obscured). 4) Position the cylinder on top of one of the spheres. 5) Point the cylinder at the other sphere. 6) Use ScaleEntity (not ScaleMesh) to adjust the diameter to fit the spheres and the length to reach all the way to the second sphere. Because of step 1, the scale factor for the length should simply be the distance between the two spheres. |
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| Cool... I do not totally understanding... Do you have a code snip to share? Thanks, Eric Last edited 2011 |
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| this problem was a theme in the german forum last week: solution: http://www.blitzforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=393357 whole Thread: http://www.blitzforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37608 perhaps it may help you... |
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