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AlyssaK
01-16-2007, 07:41 PM
Hi everyone,
I'd like to find out the exact coorindates of a given object in order to insert other objects relative to this position.
I've looked at all the get methods. getPosition returns the x,y,z how could i find out each of these seperately? Is there a method that i've overlooked?
Just wanted to post a quick question before i went ahead with parsing the output of getPosition.
Thanks.
farshizzo
01-17-2007, 09:22 AM
I'm not exactly sure what you are needing. getPosition() will return the exact (x,y,z) coordinates of the objects local origin. Is the object underneath a hierarchy of other objects? If so, then you will need to call getPosition(viz.ABS_GLOBAL) to get the true world coordinates of the object.
AlyssaK
01-17-2007, 03:29 PM
Sorry i don't think i explained the question clearly.
getPosition does return the x,y,z coordinates. What i am looking for is to set the position of a second or third object etc. relative to the position of the first object.
i.e. First object getPosition returns (2,5,10)
then x = 2, y = 5, z = 10
Second object setPosition(x, y+10, 10)
I'd like to find the values of x, y, and z seperately so that i can implement the above.
Thanks for your post.
farshizzo
01-18-2007, 09:24 AM
The following code should do what you are asking for:x,y,z = object1.getPosition()
object2.setPosition(x,y+10,10)Let me know if I still misunderstood your question.
AlyssaK
01-18-2007, 04:19 PM
Thankyou that is exactly what i was after!
I just assumed you needed to call a different function to retrieve each of the coordinates seperately.
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