Align head of arrow with body

[Statics]

Hey, is there any way to get the arrow heads in this demo to align with the body of the arrow?

 

I can get the rotation right for some of the sectors such as +x,+y, and +z but the other sectors don't work. I'm fairly new to babylon and I don't know if there is a function to do this.

 

I realize it might be possible to do with multiple if statements but I would prefer not to do it that way.

 

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XPA7I#1

 

Please let me know if there is any way to do this,

 

Thanks

[Gerente]

Your Link is not working, here is fixed:

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XPA7I#1

[jerome]

If you know the final orientation in terms of axis (or vectors) but you don't know what rotation to apply to your cylinder to align it with one of these final vectors, you could use the static RotationFromAxis() method.

Documented here ("Generating a rotation from a target system" part ) : http://doc.babylonjs.com/page.php?p=22411

[iiceman]

It also seems to work with lookAt:

var vector = new BABYLON.Vector3(magx, magy, magz)var draw_vector = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateLines("lines", [new BABYLON.Vector3(0, 0, 0),vector], scene);var head1 = BABYLON.Mesh.CreateCylinder("head1", 3, 0, 2, 10, 1, scene);head1.position = vector;head1.lookAt(vector.scale(2), 0, -Math.PI/2, 0);

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XPA7I#2

[jerome]

yep

lookAt() rotates the mesh by aligning its local z axis (if I remember well) to the target

 

RotationFromAxis(axis1, axis2, axis3) creates a angle triplet (pitch, yaw, roll) what can be used to rotate then a mesh and to align it with axis1, axis2 and axis3 along its own local x, y and z axis 

[Statics]

Thanks for the help!