Distance between two nodes of the scene

george++ · Post by **george++** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:30 pm

Because I have no experience at Irrlicht and I don't want to use code twice for the same thing, I am wondering if there is a function to retrieve the distance between two nodes of the scene or if there is a set of math functions for doing operations between matrices and/or vectors.

Thanks in advance

stefbuet · Post by **stefbuet** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:54 pm

Hi,
You could try to use

distance=node1->getPosition().getDistanceFrom(node2->getPosition());

george++ · Post by **george++** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:39 pm

Thanks stefbuet

This is what I was looking for.

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:16 am

That only works if the two nodes happen to be children of the same scene node. The expression node1->getAbsolutePosition().getDistanceFrom(node2->getAbsolutePosition()) will avoid this limitation.

Travis