[Closed] Scripting rotation of objects in maxscript

$targetObj.transform.rotation = $sourceObj.transform.rotation

Something like that?

-Johan

Hello,

could you specify more “set the orientation of one object to match that of another (point)” – maybe I don’t get the problem…

This will make box01 rotation equal to box02 in world coordinates:

 in coordsys world
 (
 	 $box01.rotation = $box02.rotation
 )
 

I think you should also check Orientation_Constraint:

 (
 	oc = Orientation_Constraint()
 	oc.appendTarget $box02 1.0 --set target node with weight 1.0 
 	--with Orientation_Constraint you can add another objects with diffrent weights
 	
 	$box01.rotation.controller = oc
 )
 

jk

here´s my snippet:

   tm = $SourceObj.transform
    pos = $TargetObj.pos
    new_TM = matrix3 tm.row1 tm.row2 tm.row3 pos
    
    $TargetObj.transform = new_TM
    
      

You want just the rotation (vectors orientation),
so the key is to collect all them by going under matrix transform rows except the row4 (translation part).

not an algorithm itself, but vectors product math concept behind it. e.g:

A *(esc) B = |A| * |B| * cos(Theta)
–vectors that generates an escalar product

|A x(vec) B| = |A| x |B| x sin(Theta)
–vectors that generates another vector

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/VectorOperations.html
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CrossProductOfVectorsInTheYZPlane/
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CrossProductOfVectors/
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/VectorRotationsIn3D/
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ComplexMultiplication/

 hope it helps.