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Dec 25, 2002, 10:59am

I've just been reading about pitch in 3.4 in the SDK NG (to do with bots), I
think we should have:

create pitch 135, which makes you look up, or create pitch 45, which makes
you look down. This would be a brilliant function as i'm sure a lot of
people know the problems when running down huge flights of stairs too fast
with walls in front............ a lil run here, hover, walk on air, land,
run, hover, walk, land, etc.

Hehe

~John

Dec 25, 2002, 5:33pm

Which would plaster your face to 45 degrees.... bump maybe though,

- Mark

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Dec 25, 2002, 6:49pm

Well y'know what i mean, bump, activate & create
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Dec 26, 2002, 10:10am

This would make a good addition to the existing warp and teleport commands, actually.

It would also go well as an addition to the "Accelerate" command that I suggested a long time ago for nudging avatars in a specified direction without the sound associated with warp or teleport actions. The command would act to accellerate in a certain direction rather than toward a specific destination. The idea being that such a command could be used to move someone downstream or act as if the wind was blowing hard ehough from one direction as to slow or speed movement in certain directions. There are many such enhancements that are possible. :)

TechnoZeus



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Dec 26, 2002, 9:25pm

wouldnt it be better if 0 is looking down, and 180 is looking up?
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Dec 26, 2002, 9:40pm

[View Quote] Yeah, it would.

--Bowen--

Dec 27, 2002, 2:01am

No different to me. The way I understood the original post was that 45 would mean 45 degrees down, whereas straight down would be 90 degrees, and straight up would be -90 degrees. Upside down and backward would be 180 or -180 degrees. This idea of looking level being set at 0 degrees and straight down being 90 degrees seems to me no more or less intuitive than looking level being 90 degrees and straight down being 0 degrees, but looking level being at 0 degrees and 90 degrees being straight down does fit in better with a standard used in trigonometry.

TechnoZeus

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Dec 27, 2002, 2:04am

[View Quote] It doesn't look like that according to his post. It sounds like he was just saying
135 was straight up and 45 was straight down. But he didn't specify what "looking
down" was so it could either be directly or at an angle.

--Bowen--

Dec 27, 2002, 4:37am

Yep, I know it was a bit ambiguous. I figured with two possible interpretations and one of them being a geometracal imposibility, I would go with the possible one. :)

TechnoZeus

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Dec 27, 2002, 2:40pm

Well, what i meant is looking down stairs and up stairs, not RIGHT down, but
SEMI down!

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Dec 29, 2002, 9:02am

I was counting 0 degrees as looking right down rather than AHEAD..

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Dec 29, 2002, 10:51am

That's what I thought. :)

TZ

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