This is sweat! I used this on a limb test tutorial. I believe, I found in one of the news letters. The cylinder rotation is offset on end. It doesn’t rotate from center any more.
sync on
rem make an object
make object box 1,100,100,100
rem make a cylinder shaped object to get the mesh for the limb from
rem (note that the mesh number comes before the object number on the make mesh from object command)
make object cylinder 2,100
offset limb 2, 0, 0, -50, 0, 1
make mesh from object 1,2
delete object 2
rem add a limb to the box object using the mesh from the cylinder (obj number, limb number, mesh number)
rem limbs must be created in sequence, 1,2,3,4 etc
add limb 1,1,1
rem rotate the limb
rotate limb 1,1,45,45,0
rem resize the limb
scale limb 1,1,50,150,50
rem adjust the position of the limb
offset limb 1,1,0,50,0
rem (set the object)
set object 1,1,1,0,1,1,1,1
rem (setup camera)
position camera 250,100,-500
rem loop
do
set text font "arial"
ink rgb(500,500,500),0
center text 320,10,"use left and right arrow keys to rotate the cylinder limb"
center text 320,460,"press escape to exit"
rem rotate object
yrotate object 1,wrapvalue(object angle y(1)+0.5)
rem move object
move object 1,2.5
rem rotate limb (limb angle x(obj number,limb number)
if leftkey()=1 then rotate limb 1,1,wrapvalue(limb angle x(1,1)-1),45,0
if rightkey()=1 then rotate limb 1,1,wrapvalue(limb angle x(1,1)+1),45,0
sync
loop
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