I'm doing a segmentIntersect, now I want to know the angle at which the angle took place.

A segment intersection will return to you a normal vector. Normalize the line segment you used to check for segment intersection, and then do a dot product between your normalized vector and the normal vector you got as a result of the intersection. Then you use acos to change your dotproduct to an angle (in radians).

Vector3 ray = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);
float dist;
CollisionSkin skin;
Vector3 pos, normal;
 
ImmovableSkinPredicate pred = new ImmovableSkinPredicate();
Segment seg = new Segment(ray, Vector3.Down * 1000.0f)
 
world.CollisionSystem.SegmentIntersect(out dist, out skin, out pos, out normal, seg, pred);
 

// Get the segment you made as a vector
Vector3 segmentVector = ray + (Vector3.Down * 1000.0f);
segmentVector.Normalize();

float dotProduct = segmentVector.Dot(normal);
float angle = (float)Math.Acos(dotProduct);

Hi,

tanks for the response, but it wasn't needed any more (the thread was created over a year ago)

furrie wrote:

Hi,

 

tanks for the response, but it wasn't needed any more (the thread was created over a year ago)

I figured as much, it was more for anyone else that came across the forums with a similar question.