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Falc

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Posted: 24th Aug 2004 06:43

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i\'m new to this all (working with demo)

is there a function to get the distance between 2 objects or 2 points ?

when I program a function to say multiply 2 numbers, and I call the function like this
\"$result = multi(2,4)\"

$result should now be 8, how do I let the function return that value tot that variable(could be any variable), or is that not possible ?

are there good tutorials that explain the basics of vectors cause I don\'t understand any of it and the help files aren\'t much help either

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Posted: 24th Aug 2004 07:20

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well you can do the math inline but....

Function Multiply(a as integer, b as integer)
local c as integer
c = a * b
Endfunction c

just as an example.

then you could say MyInt=Multiply(2,4)

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Posted: 24th Aug 2004 07:42

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jep just find that out, now remains the ohter 2 questions

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Posted: 24th Aug 2004 07:54

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For objects:

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function obj_distance(obj1,obj2)

xd#=object position x(obj1)-object position x(obj2)
yd#=object position y(obj1)-object position y(obj2)
zd#=object position z(obj1)-object position z(obj2)

result#=sqrt((xd#*xd#)+(zd#*zd#))
result#=sqrt((result#*result#)+(yd#*yd#))

endfunction result#

And you can work out the function for 2 points

Hope that helps!