Alternative approach to path construction Andrew Williams http://www.bolton.ac.uk/ staff/adw1
Dec 19, 2015
Now, add a rock
Make sure the car is selected before you add the rock.(So that the rock sits in the same position)
Notes
• They don’t need to be rocks specifically– Any object with geometry and a location will do
• They don’t need to be evenly spaced• One rock must be able to “see” (ie draw an
unobstructed straight line) to its neighbour• The rocks are in order– Hence Clone and not Clone Insert
What is a path?
• A path is simply a series of locations around the track.– Normally you record the path yourself by driving
round the track– We are going to use the locations of the rocks
• We don’t actually need the middle number– That represents the height above the track but we
want the path on the track, so we enter 0 for that
The three numbers
• We don’t need to include all those decimal places either
• I would suggest that this location can be adequately represented by 0, 0, -4
We have created trail of breadcrumbs
Add a path and delete the default nodes (ie on the right-hand side)