Ok, yes. After tinkering last night a bit I found that it is indeed this simple. For some reason I was getting confused, based upon where I was putting the separators for different branches of the structure. I like this top-down approach. It makes it easy to add global modifiers at the top of the gem chain.
~Kyle On 4/17/07, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 23:32 -0500, Kyle Klipowicz wrote: > > Ok, that was a dumb question, after looking at separator. > > > > But it raises some questions for me: is the best way to position > > multi-geo unit, say of a sphere being orbited by smaller spheres, best > > accomplished by using a lot of additions, or is there a way to chain > > translate objects? > > if i understand you correctly, this is _very_ simple to achieve. here an > example of a renderchain: > > > [gemhead] > | > [translateXYZ] <- translate the whole planet system around > | > [sphere 1] <- sun > | > [rotateXYZ] <- rotate around Y-axis > | > [translateXYZ 2 0 0 ] > | > [sphere 0.1] <- earth > > > you can also add the moon: > > | > [rotateXYZ] <- rotate around Y-axis > | > [translate 0.2] > | > [sphere 0.03] > > > hope, that makes it clear how to 'resolve dependencies' in gem. > > roman > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > -- http://theradioproject.com http://perhapsidid.blogspot.com (((())))(()()((((((((()())))()(((((((())()()())()))) (())))))(()))))))))))))(((((((((((()()))))))))((()))) ))(((((((((((())))())))))))))))))))__________ _____())))))(((((((((((((()))))))))))_______ ((((((())))))))))))((((((((000)))oOOOOOO _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
