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PlayMaker Updates & Downloads => Share New Actions => Topic started by: kiriri on September 18, 2012, 07:33:05 AM

Title: Rotate to Direction
Post by: kiriri on September 18, 2012, 07:33:05 AM

Long time no see,
I've worked on a couple of projects recently and have created a bunch of various handy actions. I forgot which they are though, so if I find them I'll post em here. I didn't intend to be selfish :)

This one took me quite a long time to figure out, despite it being utterly simple. If you want to rotate an object to a normal value you got from a raycast (eg. for simple decals), use this :) . No up/down values etc.
You can also use it to calculate the global rotation of a direction, without the single use of transformation matrices or complex angle calculation.

Title: Re: Rotate to Direction
Post by: Uttpd on September 21, 2012, 01:00:44 PM

Thanks for sharing  ;)

Title: Re: Rotate to Direction
Post by: FritsLyn on June 22, 2013, 02:42:17 PM

Yes, thanks for sharing, and though this is an old post, I hope theres someone out there :)

I want to make "ground hugging"; In front of my "car" I have placed a GameObject that fires a ray down.

I need to use the angle of what it sees to spin my "car" to match the angle of what is in front.

As I understand things, your scrips should help - but I cannot figure out what is in and out here.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Rotate to Direction
Post by: FritsLyn on June 22, 2013, 02:51:06 PM

OMG, THIS IS FANTASTIC!

Just do a raycast, the variable "Store Hit Normal" goes into your "Direction", and voila!

Playmaker guys, if you are out there: This really should be implemented, so simple, yet so complex - and here is the solution, thank you kiriri from long time ago!!