Author Topic: TM_ROWs, Vectors, Matrices and you! (Read 3429 times)

Hydro · « **Reply #1 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:18:06 PM »

The Hydro is confuse

JoeBlo · « **Reply #2 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:24:05 PM »

nicely done Serge

Serge · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:25:49 PM »

Quote from: Hydro on July 13, 2010, 08:18:06 PM

The Hydro is confuse

What seems to be the problem?

Hydro · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2010, 08:26:34 PM »

Nothing. It's just long and... mathematical.

:D

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2010, 09:26:43 PM »

*Gasp* Look at all those words.

I read the bold ones. :P

G.K. · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2010, 01:27:58 AM »

I vaguely understand this. Nice work.

Madiaba · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2010, 03:08:27 AM »

Thanks for the help, Serge. Get this how you want it to be and I'll 'Pin' it up in the 'Tutorials'.

School's a burden? Oi vey...
A vector, guys, is like a little packet of info, containing multiple parameters (like magnitude and direction). Here we are just 'relating' (or co--relating) two objects' cardinal directions: the arena and the gmf object (that is somewhere in the arena).

This is done through a Trans-Matrix of columns and rows: TM_ROWS.
The 3 columns represents the arena's xyz axes.
The 3 rows represent the gmf objects xyz axes.

Correlation works thus:
'1' means there is a direct correlation (arena's 'x' = the gmf object's 'x')
'0' means there is a no correlation between the arena's 'x' and the gmf object's 'x'.

Just read over Serge's post a couple times and you'll get it. You should have had this in Algebra; sine, cosine, etc.. so don't throw a 'tangent',... hehe.

Serge, I'll put your work right next to this thread:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,2310.msg58530.html#msg58530

JoeBlo · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2010, 03:18:06 AM »

do I get a cookie for understanding it all ?

also Mad umm isnt 4:30am a little late (or early) to be reading over mathematics ?

Madiaba · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2010, 03:24:37 AM »

I'm nailed...

G'night.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #10 on:** July 22, 2010, 11:28:45 PM »

Hmm I handle TM_ROWs somewhat differently... I just imagine the x,y,z axes in my head, and then imagine rotating the whole space so the z direction is pointing the way I want it to go, and then figure out the coordinates of the point 0,0,1 in the new coordinate space.

But I guess if you're more mathematically inclined, the multiplication method works too. Nice tutorial with bits of humor sprinkled throughout.

But you don't explain how to make a matrix that makes you a sammich.

That would be cool.

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2010, 07:11:28 PM »

Quote from: Clickbeetle on July 22, 2010, 11:28:45 PM

But you don't explain how to make a matrix that makes you a sammich. That would be cool.

Pwnator · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2010, 10:04:36 PM »

NO HE'S NOT! HE'S IN A BATHROOM! :P

And I didn't like matrix multiplication back then. Dunno if I'll use it when I'm gonna fiddle around with GMFs lol.

Naryar · « **Reply #13 on:** July 29, 2010, 11:44:37 AM »

Quote from: Pwnator on July 23, 2010, 10:04:36 PM

And I didn't like matrix multiplication back then.

Matrix multiplication is one

of a bitch anyways.

But nice work serge ! *downloads pic*

LiNcK · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2010, 09:21:21 PM »

Am I getting stuff like that later in school?

...Im scared

System32 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2010, 09:43:56 PM »

Quote from: Jack Daniels on July 23, 2010, 07:11:28 PM

Quote from: Clickbeetle on July 22, 2010, 11:28:45 PM
But you don't explain how to make a matrix that makes you a sammich. That would be cool.
(Image removed from quote.)

Sudo make me a sammich.

Serge · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2010, 09:47:23 PM »

Silly System32! You can't sudo in Windows! You're not a Unix-based system. You don't belong here! Heck, you're not even POSIX-compliant!

Also, go to sleep, it's 4AM you drunk Scotsman.

System32 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 02, 2010, 02:38:09 PM »

Quote from: Serge on July 31, 2010, 09:47:23 PM

Silly System32! You can't sudo in Windows! You're not a Unix-based system. You don't belong here! Heck, you're not even POSIX-compliant!

Also, go to sleep, it's 4AM you drunk Scotsman.

all my friends from school are up...

Little lost bot · « **Reply #18 on:** August 03, 2010, 01:01:03 PM »

Vectors and me do not mix. Heck me and integers don't mix. Also chemicals I failed in school so far. If theres nite picky stuff I get mixed up.

frezal · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03, 2010, 01:27:11 PM »

Quote from: Little lost bot on August 03, 2010, 01:01:03 PM

Vectors and me do not mix. Heck me and integers don't mix. Also chemicals I failed in school so far. If theres nite picky stuff I get mixed up.

You see, I love vectors. What caused me to do terribly in Linear Algebra was all the terminology (and never doing my homework).