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madbilly

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 18:14

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Hi all,

I got DBPro a few days ago and I've been trying to make my space ship fly around. I thought it would be straightforward using the rotate object command, but it isn't. The object will rotate around its own y axis, but will only rotate around the camera/world/? x and z axes. When I tried using the turn/pitch/roll commands instead, I got a similar problem, except that it now rotated around it's own z axis, but the y axis for rotation was the world axis.

If anybody can help me (it's probably really obvious!) then please do, because I'm tearing my hair out.

Thanks and regards,

Will Davis

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spooky

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 18:28

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As soon as you rotate about z axis or use any of those pitch, roll commands, everything messes up. It has been noted as an official bug.

We were promised it was to be fixed in patch 4 but has now been delayed till patch 5 at the earliest.

Suggest you put on hold any ideas for a 'free-flight' type space game.

Gronda, Gronda

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madbilly

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Posted: 20th Mar 2003 19:05

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Thanks sonic,

How is it possible to do ANY object rotation then? Do other people have to use vector maths? I was hoping to be able to avoid all that stuff, but if I have to do it, then I have to do it!

Again, thanks for your help,

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