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Dark Physics & Dark A.I. & Dark Dynamix / Aligning a plane to another poly [help request]

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Trowbee
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 00:14
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As the title suggests, I am having a little bit of trouble aligning a plane to another poly.

Currently, I'm ray casting to find the normals of a wall I'm looking at, and applying a couple of trig commands to attempt to lie the plane flush with the wall.

Currently, to get Y angle, I use atan(xnorm/znorm), x is variant based on the outcome of Y, and Z I am forced (at this moment) to leave as 0.

I was wondering if any experienced users could help me with aligning. Ideally, I would go for a generic formula (regardless of size) to handle any direction if possible.

Naturally, since I'm posting here I have DarkPhysics so its all fine using any of those commands. But if the need arises, I have also got DarkAI and EZ_Rotate, if those are required with any commands.
And, since this *needs* to be done, if it requires me buying another plugin for other commands, it will be bought.

Cheers
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Philip
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 00:20
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Let me guess - you are trying to put decals on the wall to represent bullet holes or something like that?

From memory EZrotate has something that helps here - have a look at its ezro_polyalign command set.

Cheer if you like bears! Cheer if you like jam sandwiches!
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Trowbee
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 00:27
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haha, good guess, but wrong . Right sort of situation though.

You can't begin to imagine just how noobish I feel right this second, I did not once think to look for help under bullet hole (since its the same idea) placement.

All the same, thanks a bunch .

I now appoint you my personal codemonkey to help at my beckoning call.
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Trowbee
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 01:23
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Philip, so since you mentioned bullet holes you got me thinking differently to how I have been the last week or 2.

Bullet holes were something I conquered years ago. And as such, its now all working fine.

So this is a thankyou for reminding me of how to think as I was not. And if ever we bump into one another, consider a pint bought
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Philip
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Posted: 20th Mar 2007 01:58 Edited at: 20th Mar 2007 01:58
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Quote: "I now appoint you my personal codemonkey to help at my beckoning call. "


I am a cartoon bear. Who are you calling a monkey?

Quote: "And if ever we bump into one another, consider a pint bought "


Thanks. Come to the next DBPro Convention. I always try to attend them. You can buy me my pint then.

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