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RadiusOFT
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 07:33 Edited at: 27th Jun 2006 08:32
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is there a command in DBP that can get the 2D height and the 2D width of a 3D Object? i tried looking in the help but had no luck.
thanks

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 08:44
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object size x(), y() and z() will return the size of the object, but I'm not exactly sure what kind of numbers they return and I would never trust them. I'm assuming you're asking for the height and width and length of the object, which are not 2D. Well...lengths are technically 2D, but it's a strange way of asking for the object's height, I think.

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Dream And Death
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 14:06
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Do you mean the heigh and width viewed from a perspective, rather than the actually straight-on height and width?
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RadiusOFT
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 22:17
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To anrwer deaths question,yes

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 22:43
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Oooh, you want the on screen height and on screen width of the object.

Nope, no commands to do that.

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RadiusOFT
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 23:02
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crap

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 27th Jun 2006 23:12
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You could work out the position of every vertex on screen using a temp object, and then find the smallest/largest x/y, but this would be quite slow.

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Sven B
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Posted: 28th Jun 2006 14:57 Edited at: 28th Jun 2006 14:59
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Make a dummy object. Position it on all 8 corners after eachother, and get their 2D position using object screen x() and object screen y(). The difference between the outer values, will be the width and height.

It's faster than getting every vertex, but less accurate.
It also gets very difficult if you're starting to rotate around X and Z axis.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 29th Jun 2006 01:11
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translate four 3d points into 2d then do subtraction.

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