Hi, No, x is always horizontal on graph paper. That means running from left to right. Then y is virtical or up/down in this case. Now, based on what I just read in the wikipedia article most programmers prefer to use a right-handed coordinate system with x running east/west, y north/south, and use z for up/down. If this would make you feel better I can flip the y and z around to use the right-handed coordinate system so that z will be your virtical axis when you climb ropes, staircases, etc but that is a crap load of rewriting I need to do in order to fix it in the Genesis Engine. grrrrr....
On 6/27/10, Valiant8086 <valiant8...@lavabit.com> wrote: > Hi. > I did some reading on this, and I think it just depends how you want it to > be. You can have a cube in any direction so really z could be north south, > east west, or up down, or it could be upside down if you wanted, but me I > think from what I've been reading folks usually like to think z is up down. > Only a computer screen's is 2d says y is up down. Me I don't know why x > isn't instead, but yeah. that's why folks sometimes said z was north south > or east west. Me I prefer z being up down. Makes more sense to me.. We know > x on standard graph paper I think is north south right? And y is west east? > So seems to me we simplify things to make z go up down so we can leave x and > y alone as they were. > > I found this and it looks like it's sort of backing my claim if I read it > right. Granted this is Wikipedia, and I try to treat it with a grange of > salt. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
