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kasa YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	how to define a beginshape as a name Jun 7^th, 2007, 6:02pm i have drawn a shape with beginshape but for transform functions i want to define this shape as a name and place this shape in the transform functions how can i do that thanks

Ira

Re: how to define a beginshape as a name
Reply #1 - Jun 7^th, 2007, 8:23pm

i think what you want to do is pass arrays of shape coordinates (which will have names) to the transform functions. the beginShape(), vertex(), endShape() functions are for handling the drawing.

you could also encapsulate the process within a Shape class, including some transform methods.

there are also more complex approaches–using separate Shape, Transform, Matrix, etc classes.

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kasa YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: how to define a beginshape as a name Reply #2 - Jun 7^th, 2007, 9:52pm what i want is defining a complex shape as a word like defining beginShape(LINES); vertex(x, y); ... endShape such as complexshape and put the complexshape to a coordinate i like just by calling its shortcut i did it without defining it that short way but this way it would be better

JohnG

Re: how to define a beginshape as a name
Reply #3 - Jun 7^th, 2007, 10:13pm

You can't define it as a word I'm afraid, but you can put it into a function to achieve the result:

Code:


void myShape()
{
  beginShape(LINES);
  // etc etc
  endShape();
}

void draw()
{
  pushMatrix();
  translate(20,40,0);
  myShape();
  popMatrix();
  pushMatrix();
  rotateZ(0.524);
  translate(-3,50,0);
  myShape();
  popMatrix();
  //etc etc...
}

kasa YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	Re: how to define a beginshape as a name Reply #4 - Jun 7^th, 2007, 10:54pm thanks for your answers they helped a lot
	« Last Edit: Jun 8^th, 2007, 12:26am by kasa »

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