Move and rotate to a face

[soshiant]

Well this should be very simple, but I kept banging my head against it last night and couldn't get it to work.

What I want to do is to place an object and rotate it correctly onto a face of an poly. So exactly like the autogrid.

This is what I write:

tPos=polyOp.getFaceCenter $ iFace node:#World
tNormal=polyOp.getFaceNormal $ iFace
tm=matrix3 1
tm=matrixFromNormal tNormal
newObject.rotation=inverse tm-rotationpart
newObject.pos=tPos

I'm thinking that perhaps I'm mixing coordinate systems or something like that.
/Andreas
rotation in max 6.0 is a quaternion var. so you have to convert it to quat. See max ref for details on quats and converting them to other types and vise versa. Hope it works.:)

[magicm]

newObject.rotation=inverse tm-rotationpart

This might not solve your problem, but it seems you have a typo in this line:
tm-rotationpart should probably be tm.rotationpart.

- Martijn

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