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Do nodes have length?

by Daniel Buckmaster · in Torque Game Engine · 11/10/2007 (8:04 am) · 2 replies

Just what the title says. I'm doing some stuff with procedural animation, and I need to know what lengths the bones in a model are. Is there a way to do this other than just getting the distances between nodes when the model is added and storing them?
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    Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
    #1
    11/10/2007 (9:48 am)
    Nodes does not have length no. Only way to get the "length" is to get the distance between parent/child nodes. (which may get pretty messy and incorrect if you have several children to a parent, but it depends on your needs).

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
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    #2
    11/10/2007 (1:09 pm)
    I guess the engine would need to be changed to support this, not to mention DTS exporters. Yeah, bones with several children could get odd. I think, though, that telling my modelers to make sure each bone in their characters' arms only has one child wouldn't go down too badly...