how to calculate vectors and how to use them?
do i need to create a class called vectors or?
i know you do something with x and y of an object
and calculate it to get the diraction its moving and stuff
but how
object 1
x
y
dx
dy
now what? how to make the phycics
sy bad english
Hi
You use
Math.atan2(dy, dx)
to get an angle of direction, and to get the size of a vector from dy and dx, you do
double angleInRadians = Math.atan2(dy, dx);
double size = Math.sqrt((dx * dx) + (dy * dy));
Hope this helps!
CopyableCougar4
so i paint a rectangel at
g.drawrect(x + dx,y + dy,25,25);
and move it with
dy? and dx
what do i do with angelinradians
and size?
EDIT: how to move the rectangle in the diraction as well? with angel
No offense but from what I’ve seen from you in the forums, it clearly stands out that you don’t really have the basics down yet.
Read up on linear algebra and hone your math skills, because honestly we can’t answer all the maths questions that would ever come to your mind (also it would be faster if you would just read a good book). With that being said here’s an answer to your question:
A vector is just pretty much a point in space (in 2D space it’s likely to have 2 components: X and Y, in 3D space it has X, Y and Z).
If you think about vectors as arrows or as a line than you are most likely wrong.
A vector points from A to B, but if we’re talking about a single vector than we “imagine” the other one to be at (0, 0[, 0…]).
You can make a vector that points from A to B just by subtracting A from B.
You can subtract two vectors by subtracting all of their matching components one-by-one (sorry if my explanation is not clear but English is not my native language either).
So basically:
Vector3f a = new Vector3f(3f, 5f, 2f);
Vector3f b = new Vector3f(12f, 6f, 5f);
Vector3f aToB = new Vector3f(b.x-a.x, b.y-a.y, b.z-a.z);
LWJGL’s vector class also has a subtract method if I’m not mistaken but I was just trying to demonstrate the principle here.
We call difference X = DX, and difference Y = DY, so basically you just have to subtract the A vector’s X and Y components from the B vectors X and Y components, resulting in DX and DY accordingly.
You can get the angle between to points using the method that CopyableCougar4 wrote:
double angleInRadians = Math.atan2(dy, dx);
Please note that the method’s first parameter is DY and not DX as one would expect.
Also note that this method’s return value is not degrees but radians.
If you want to convert radians to degrees you can do the following:
double radians = 0.6;
double angles = radians*180.0/Math.PI;
Size in Cougar’s code should be called distance or length, that’s the distance between the two vectors or as often referred to, the length of the vectors (btw I think this is wrongly called so, because calculating the distance between two vectors and a single vector is different).
The distance formula is this:
Keep in mind that I’m not a mathematician and there might be something wrong with my explanation or in my code, although I was trying to keep my post error-free.
Hopefully this cleared things up, but as I said in the beginning of my post, you should pick up a book on the subject. 
Hi
I didn’t really thoroughly read this, but I found this page online. It seems to explain some basics of vectors, from dot products to add vectors. Again, I don’t know how helpful this page is for a beginner, but here: http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/vectors.html Hope this helped 
CopyableCougar4
do i need to create my own vector class coos i cant do vec.x or vec.y on this
Vector vec = new Vector(0, 0);
LWJGL Util has vector classes for anywhere from 2 to 4 points with some utility methods built in.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math
The best math resource you will ever need.
What? X and Y are just fields in the vector class.