getPosition coordinates

[AlyssaK]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.