getPosition coordinates
 

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.

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.

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.

The following code should do what you are asking for:Let me know if I still misunderstood your question.

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.