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eGuy
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Posted: 30th Jan 2003 00:14
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Howdy. Just started with DarkBASIC, am most of the way through the tutorials.

One quick question: is there any way to change the base units that DarkBASIC uses to something meaningful, like meters or feet? I can do a conversion factor, but it would be much more convenient to simply use standard units, especially in physics equations.

Thanks in advance.
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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 30th Jan 2003 00:24
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????????...it's a programming language...you define everything!
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kfoong
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you could program it yourself like meters = 1000 pixels and start from there i think.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 30th Jan 2003 01:49
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He means 3D units - and it's not such a silly question when you think about how the 3D environment is constructed. The answer though is really one of "what benefit do you get from a sphere being 50 ft. in width as opposed to 50 units?" (yes, I can have a question as an answer!). I say this because your two eyeballs can't quantify "feet" on the 2D display of your monitor anyway, you could never look at a 3D scene and say "oh yeah, that building must be at least 200 ft away".

So really - name the units whatever you like, call them parsecs or meters or whatever, it doesn't really matter and it won't effect your code

Cheers,

Rich

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eGuy
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Points well taken, and thanks for the replies.

The question arose because an object that I modeled with a width of three meters imported as being about equal to a 150 unit cube, so there didn't seem to be any correlation or way to adjust other than scaling my objects, which is fine if that's just how it's done. I didn't know if it was possible to work the other way round and make the units equal a meter rather than making a meter equal a unit.

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