Niteshifter
03-18-2010, 10:33 PM
My assignment is basically to make a person scale a pyramid using the Pythagorean theorem, which for me is very easy and my teacher knows that I can do this stuff in about 5 min, so we're (me and my teacher) are both challenging ourselves to find a way so that the angle at which the person scales the pyramid is accurate (since the book just says to have the person turn forward 1/8 of a revolution).
I've gotten it partially finished, however I'm stuck at a spot. I've created a function that will return how far the person will turn using trigonometric methods. This is what I have so far (it's put into simple steps so that it's easy to follow):
Var is a number value
Py is the pyramid
Var = arctan(py.height/(py.width/2))
Var = 90 - Var
Var = Var/360
Return Var
What this does is return the degrees at which is between the edge of the bounding box and the slope of the pyramid, which is approx. 24.7°. Now the problem I'm having is translating this to how far the person will turn forward because if I put that in as it is, the person will turn forward a whole 90°.
I've gotten it partially finished, however I'm stuck at a spot. I've created a function that will return how far the person will turn using trigonometric methods. This is what I have so far (it's put into simple steps so that it's easy to follow):
Var is a number value
Py is the pyramid
Var = arctan(py.height/(py.width/2))
Var = 90 - Var
Var = Var/360
Return Var
What this does is return the degrees at which is between the edge of the bounding box and the slope of the pyramid, which is approx. 24.7°. Now the problem I'm having is translating this to how far the person will turn forward because if I put that in as it is, the person will turn forward a whole 90°.