When I try this I get 'Expected 2 parameters but only 1 found.' What does this
mean? I have included functions.inc and transforms.inc

HELP?

clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 29.01.2011 19:55, schrieb Charles C:
> > Stephen's answer is probably what you want.   But if you really want to know the
> > x,y,z location, you can create a vector representing the axis of your cylinder
> > before rotation and then rotate the vector by the same amount.
> >
> >  From the manual:
> >
> > "vaxis_rotate(A,B,F) Rotate A about B by F. Given the x,y,z coordinates of a
> > point in space designated by the vector A, rotate that point about an arbitrary
> > axis defined by the vector B. Rotate it through an angle specified in degrees by
> > the float value F. The result is a vector containing the new x,y,z coordinates
> > of the point."
>
>
> Or, more generally, instead of
>
>    cylinder {
>      A, B, R
>      rotate <...>
>      translate <...>
>      scale <...>
>    }
>
> you could use:
>
>    #local MyTransform = transform {
>      rotate <...>
>      translate <...>
>      scale <...>
>    }
>    cylinder {
>      A, B, R
>      transform { MyTransform }
>    }
>
> then you can get the final position of A and B by evaluating:
>
>    #local A2 = vtransform(A, MyTransform);
>    #local B2 = vtransform(B, MyTransform);

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