On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:35:11 EST, "Grassblade" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> "Ben Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
>> > object {
>> > horse
>> > translate x*some_num
>> > translate y*sin(clock*some_num2)*some_num3
>> > rotate y*some_num4
>> > }
>>
>>
>>     And that's it? That'll make my horse go up and down whilst rotating? I
>> imagined some longer code... Thanks Ben, will give it a try when I'm fully
>> modeled-up for the scene.
>>
>>      ~Steve~
>Actually no, that's not it. You need to multiply the last line (rotate
>y*some_num4) by the clock too, to make the horse move in circles.
>
It looked right when I came in last night from the pub :-)
Actually I was going to say to Steve that he does not need to render a full
circle. Because of the inherent symmetry of a carousel you just need to render a
fraction. If there are 12 horses in the outer row then 30 degrees is all you
need to do. The way I constructed mine was in sections by groups then the groups
were referenced. So it was the groups that rotated around the y axis and the
horses translated in the y axis.

Regards
	Stephen

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