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Vector Help

2002-11-30, 10:59 AM #1

herb

a necessary change

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I have a projectile, its moving. I want it to keep moving at that speed, but change its direction based on the lookvector of another object. How would I go about doing this? I've tried simply changing its lookvector, but, sadly, things don't seem to be that easy.

2002-11-30, 4:18 PM #2

The_New_Guy

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Posts: 158

SPEED would be the velocity from the projectile template.

SetThingLook(bullet, NEWLVEC);
SetThingVel(bullet, VectorScale(GetThingLVec(bullet), SPEED));

[This message has been edited by The_New_Guy (edited December 01, 2002).]

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2002-11-30, 11:56 PM #3

zagibu

Can't find his marbles

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Assuming NEWLVEC is a normalized vector...

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2002-12-01, 5:02 AM #4

The_New_Guy

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Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by zagibu:
Assuming NEWLVEC is a normalized vector...

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Opps yeah your right, I fixed it now.

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2002-12-02, 9:26 AM #5

herb

a necessary change

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thanks for the help, i got it to work.