GLBasic forum

Main forum => GLBasic - en => Topic started by: JohnnyB on 2019-Aug-13

Title: Anyone got code for a 3D(or flat) Hexagon?
Post by: JohnnyB on 2019-Aug-13
Just askin  :enc:
Title: Re: Anyone got code for a 3D(or flat) Hexagon?
Post by: SnooPI on 2019-Oct-14
A 3D hexagon (or hexagonal prism) is just a particular cylinder.
If you use this function with slices=6, you normally get a hexagonal prism (I have not tested).

CreateCylinder(0,  16, 16, 16,  6, 1,  RGB(255, 0, 0))

Code (glbasic) Select


FUNCTION CreateCylinder: num, baseRadius, topRadius, height, slices, stacks, col
LOCAL da, r, dr, dz, x, y, z, i, j
LOCAL x1, y1, x2, y2
da = 360 / slices
dr = (topRadius-baseRadius) / stacks
dz = height / stacks

X_AUTONORMALS 2
X_OBJSTART num
FOR i=0 TO slices-1
x1 = COS(i*da)
y1 = SIN(i*da)
x2 = COS((i+1)*da)
y2 = SIN((i+1)*da)
z = 0
r = baseRadius

// Bottom lid
IF baseRadius>0
X_OBJADDVERTEX 0, 0, 0,  .5, .5, col
X_OBJADDVERTEX x1*r, y1*r, 0, x1/2+.5, y1/2+.5, col
X_OBJADDVERTEX x2*r, y2*r, 0, x2/2+.5, y2/2+.5, col
X_OBJNEWGROUP
ENDIF
// side
FOR j=0 TO stacks
X_OBJADDVERTEX x2*r, y2*r, z, (i+1)/slices,  j/stacks, col
X_OBJADDVERTEX x1*r, y1*r, z,  i   /slices,  j/stacks, col
z = z+dz
r = r+dr
NEXT
// Top lid
IF topRadius>0
X_OBJNEWGROUP
X_OBJADDVERTEX x2*r, y2*r, height, x2/2+.5, y2/2+.5, col
X_OBJADDVERTEX x1*r, y1*r, height, x1/2+.5, y1/2+.5, col
X_OBJADDVERTEX 0, 0, height,  .5, .5, col
ENDIF
X_OBJNEWGROUP
NEXT
X_OBJEND
ENDFUNCTION