orient3d_model(3)

💅 orient3d_model(3) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Arcan Lua API manual — this is the orient3d_model(3) page and it’s lowkey iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

orient3d_model — set the base orientation for the specified model. slay 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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       orient3d_model( model, roll, pitch, yaw )

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so the active orientation of a model is dynamically changeable — that’s the whole vibe. But many models from external sources come with a different starting orientation 😭

You could compensate for that, but sometimes it’s easier to just rotate the vertices once. It’s giving “one-time vertex glow-up,” honestly. The cost is O(n) in respect to the number of vertices in the model. Not me doing math in public, but there it is 🧮✨

🎀 NOTES 🎀

1. Since this operates on the vertex data itself, with a transformation that can impose a loss of precision, it is not recommended that this is used more than once for any model. fr fr, be careful with this one 💀

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here’s the example, bestie — copy it exactly and it’ll slay:

       function orient3d_model0()
             camera = null_surface(4, 4, 0, 0, 0);
             view = camtag_model(camera, 0);
             model = build_plane3d(-5.0, -5.0, 5.0, 5.0, -0.4, 1.0, 1.0, 0);
             show_image(model);
             orient3d_model(model, 10, 5, 2);
       end

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• rotate3d_model(3) — go check it out, bestie 🫶

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that’s the whole page, periodt 💅 this one comes from the 3d source/version and is dated October 2026. mwah 😽