Get Offset From Entity Given World Coords (general calculation)

[NModds]

Hi all,

I just wanted to share a general equation for implementing relative distance or offset from entity given world coords (hash: 0x2274BC1C4885E333). I thought it was as straight forward as the difference of two vectors but it's not. I put in a bunch of numbers on my screen and realized it was using a dot product of directions.

Here is my implementation:

 

 

public Vector3 RelativeDistance(Vector3 Origin, Vector3 Rotation, Vector3 Position){    Vector3 RightVector = RelativeRightVector(Rotation);    Vector3 ForwardVector = RotationToDirection(Rotation);    return new Vector3(-1 * Vector3.Dot(RightVector, (Origin - Position)), -1 * Vector3.Dot(ForwardVector, (Origin - Position)), Position.Z - Origin.Z);}public Vector3 RelativeRightVector(Vector3 Rotation)//source is from scripthookdotnet{   double num = Math.Cos(Rotation.Y * (Math.PI / 180.0));   return new Vector3((float)(Math.Cos(-Rotation.Z * (Math.PI / 180.0)) * num), (float)(Math.Sin(Rotation.Z * (Math.PI / 180.0)) * num), (float)Math.Sin(-Rotation.Y * (Math.PI / 180.0)));}public Vector3 RotationToDirection(Vector3 Rotation)//I forgot where I got this from, I had it for a long time{   float z = Rotation.Z;   float num = z * 0.0174532924f;   float x = Rotation.X;   float num2 = x * 0.0174532924f;   float num3 = Math.Abs((float)Math.Cos((double)num2));   return new Vector3   {     X = (-(float)Math.Sin(num)) * num3,     Y = (float)Math.Cos(num) * num3,     Z = (float)Math.Sin(num2)   };} 

 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by nm710

[ikt]

Since GTAForums mangled the code, here it is again, but less mangled (and in C++, and assuming all rotations are in radians).

 

template <typename Vector3T>
Vector3T RotationToDirection(Vector3T rot) {
    auto rotZ = (rot.z);
    auto rotX = (rot.x);
    auto multXY = abs(cos(rotX));
    Vector3T v{};
    v.x = -sin(rotZ) * multXY;
    v.y = cos(rotZ) * multXY;
    v.z = sin(rotX);
    return v;
}

template <typename Vector3T>
Vector3T RelativeRightVector(Vector3T rot) {
    auto num = cos(rot.y);
    Vector3T v{};
    v.x = cos(-rot.z) * num;
    v.y = sin(rot.z) * num;
    v.z = sin(-rot.y);
    return v;
}

template <typename Vector3T>
Vector3T GetRelativeOffsetGivenWorldCoords(Vector3T position1, Vector3T position2, Vector3T rot) {
    Vector3T right = RelativeRightVector(rot);
    Vector3T forward = RotationToDirection(rot);

    Vector3T v{};
    v.x = -1 * Dot(right, (position1 - position2));
    v.y = -1 * Dot(forward, (position1 - position2));
    v.z = position2.z - position1.z;
    return v;
}

Honestly, why'd they go and delete all newlines from code blocks?

Edited June 19, 2021 by ikt