how do you calculate the distance?

[d3coy]

distance $box01.pos $box02.pos


:D

[Bobo]

You've got the quares wrong - it is (B-A)^2, not 2^(B-A)...
Also, the example is for 2D distance only, you need the 3rd component, and you have to ADD all 3 squares before you calculate the Square root, not subtract them.


sqrt((($Box02.pos.x - $Box01.pos.x)^2) + (($Box02.pos.y - $Box01.pos.y)^2) + (($Box02.pos.z - $Box01.pos.z)^2) ) --full form

distance $Box01.pos $Box02.pos --as already mentioned

--when working with nodes, MXS is smart enough to know what you want - this is the short-hand form:
distance $Box01 $Box02

[eek]

also you can make this even cleaner using a for loop. Well its just this:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/equations/Distance/equation3.gif



r = 0
for i = 1 to 3 do
(
r = r + (abs(p0.transform.pos[i]-p1.transform.pos[i]))^2
)

sqrt(r)



This will use point2 values also if you set the 3 in the for loop to a 2.

[erensaritas]

thank u so much friends:thumbsup:
distance is the easiest way of course but i didnt know:)

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