how to rotate in an animated loop?

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon May 31, 2004 2:30 am

Hi guys!

Is there an animator to make a 3d model spin 360 degrees in the "Y" axis?

how would that be done? I want a model to show up as a projected hologram rotating in a loop.

thnx!

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Mon May 31, 2004 3:49 am

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/docu/cl ... r.html#a30

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon May 31, 2004 4:22 am

Thnx Saigumi. I tried and tried and tried using the API before but without success. Remember I'm not a programmer. That's why I brough it up here, to try it thru an example. I'm more like a code vampire.

If you may post some example code on how to declare the animator and then attach it to a 3d model node would be lovely.

thanks!!!

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Mon May 31, 2004 8:31 am

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scene::ISceneNodeAnimator *anim2 = smgr->createRotationAnimator(core::vector3df(0, 1, 0));
	mnode->addAnimator(anim2);
	anim2->drop();

mnode is the node of the object you want to rotate
core::vector3df is the axis and the speed it should turn around it

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:52 pm

thnx again r2! gonna try it now!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:02 pm

whoohooo!!!

that did it!

Man it was the simplest way. I was complicating things up. Where do you set the speed of rotation? If I place it wrong it gives me an error that the animator doesn't work with 2 values.

cheers!

r2d2 · Post by **r2d2** » Mon May 31, 2004 2:00 pm

core::vector3df is the axis and the speed it should turn around