hidden dots in 3d dot landscape

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Bremer(Posted 2003) [#1]
Hi, I have made a 3D dot landscape in blitz2D and would like to have the dots hidden that isn't supposed to be visible. All the dots have a set of co-ordinates x,y,z and is rotated around the different axis's. Is there a way to find out if a dot should be shown or not?


Ice9(Posted 2003) [#2]
assign each dot a normal
I'm assuming you
look in the 3d code archive you can rework that one to your
needs.
Then if the normal is facing don't draw it.
I think you use the erm "dot product" of the camera normal and the dot normal can't remember if it is a positive or negative number that faces the camera