Re: Keeping current position

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Brian Furtaw (brian++at++sgi.com)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:23:46 -0500

pfDCS's are absolute they do not accumulate matrix operations. Use a set of
pfMatrix instances to hold the current transform for each object then use
pfDCS::setMat(pfMatrix &) to load it into the proper DCS.

Brian

On Dec 31, 12:29pm, LIM MING WAH wrote:
> Subject: Keeping current position
>
> Hello all,
> I have recently tried to load many objects (up to 5) to perfly by
> distributing them to different DCSs. Then I modified the keybd.c to take
> in numbers from 1 to 5 and this toggles through the objects to be moved.
> The problem I face is that whenever I toggle back to an object whcih I
> have moved previously, it altomatically resets to its initial position.
> Is there any way which I can preserve their most recent position when I
> call up the object?
>
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> I have added this to the keybd.c file:
>
> void toggleobject(int choice)
> {
>
> ViewState->sceneDCS = pointer[choice];
> initXformer();
>
> }
>
>
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> National University of Singapore
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