AlignToVector - What does it do?
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| I'm adding some 'next gen'ish stuff to minib3d(for personal use, a game i'm doing not a commercial engine) and I want to port Halo's doomb3d code to minib3d, cos i've had bad luck with actual tangent mapping. So does anyone know what AlignToVector does internally? Anyone wrote a reproduction in max for minib3d? Any dlls/C++/C# etc source code that does the same I could use as a basis for my own? |
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| Ant, are you making an Engine out of BMX? Please adding a DX 8.1 driver..... |
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| Well it depends, officially i ported it(Mostly Simon's b3d with some new additions and rewrote classes) all over to C++, but the C++ stuff doesn't have the next geny glsl and postfx systems i added to Soo.. long story short, I wanted to carry on the bmax one but thats only going to happen if I can emulate AlignToVector. No dot3 bump-mapping no sale, I'll just carry on with codemonkey. So someone help mmmkay |
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| http://www.blitzbasic.com/b3ddocs/command.php?name=AlignToVector&ref=3d_a-z |
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| I know that much already pert, it's the inner workings of the function i need to know. OR another way of putting it..if I wanted to do the same thing in C++(Most popular language so most likely to have tuts on it) what would my search terms be? I tried "Align a matrix to vector" but got nothing even remotely related. |
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| Isn't the sprite alignment for billboarding doing something like an align to vector albeit always using the same axis? |
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| No idea tbh, i really suck at 3d maths beyond simple stuff like point distance, dot3 etc. |
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