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Jon-Huhn

04-08-2007, 02:47 PM

I'm sure this issue has been dealt with a million times on this forum, but honestly, I don't have enough math skills to spot the solution from all the posts I combed through.

Given an arbitrary vector representing an axis in world space, and an arbitrary angle, how do i rotate that object around that axis by that angle?

Thanks for your help (and your patience :) )

ofer_z

04-08-2007, 04:49 PM

try this (from the MXS help):
rotate <node> <angle> <axis_point3> -- mapped -- angle in degrees

hOpe this helps,
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Jon-Huhn

04-09-2007, 09:51 PM

Perfect. Thanks so much. I guess I didn't find it in the MXS docs cause it was hidden under the section, "Node Common Properties, Operators, and Methods".

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