You can group objects together to make a composite object that can be moved and rotated as though it were a single object. Create a frame object, and associate objects with that frame:
f = frame()
cylinder(frame=f, pos=(0,0,0), radius=0.1, length=1, color=color.cyan)
sphere(frame=f, pos=(1,0,0), radius=0.2, color=color.red)
f.axis = (0,1,0)
f.pos = (-1,0,0)
By default, frame() has a position of (0,0,0) and axis
in the x direction (1,0,0). The cylinder and sphere are created within the
frame. When any of the frame attributes are changed (pos,
x, y, z,
axis, or up),
the composite object is reoriented and repositioned.
Another frame attribute is objects,
which is a list of currently visible objects contained in the frame (the
list does not include objects that are currently invisible). If you want
to make all the objects in a frame be red, do the following (assume the
frame is named f):
for obj in f.objects:
obj.color = color.red
If you use this method to make all the objects invisible,
the f.objects list will be empty. If you need a list containing all the
objects, both visible and invisible, you need to maintain your own list
of objects.
If ball
is an object in a frame, ball.pos is the position
local to the frame, not the actual position in "world space".
Here is a routine that will calculate the position of a vector such as ball.pos
in world space:
def world_space_pos(frame, local):
"""Returns the position of local in world space."""
x_axis = norm(frame.axis)
z_axis = norm(cross(frame.axis, frame.up))
y_axis = norm(cross(z_axis, x_axis))
return frame.pos+local.x*x_axis+local.y*y_axis+local.z*z_axis
