linking 2 spheres

Quote:

Original post by zahidayar i have 2 spheres in my directx application that i want to visually relate somehow. any advice on how i should do it?

There are lots of different possibilities - depends what you mean by "visually relate". It could be as simple as sharing the same colour, or more complex transformation/animation properties.

Quote:

Original post by zahidayar i also want the link to be dynamic so that if i move one of the spheres, the link should still be linked to the sphere.

So, you want the linked sphere to move the same direction/distance as the original sphere? That'd just be a simple case of using the same matrix transformations with a different starting point/origin. You might want to read-up on your matrix mathematics for further details on this - its more a maths thing than anything specific to the API.

hth
Jack

thanks for the reply Jack,

what i mean by visually relate is ...

you know how in a graph, there are nodes and edges. well in my application, i have spheres which can be like the nodes and now i need lines to connect those spheres.

do you know how i can do that?