Help? I'm not understanding these formulas. Slope to degrees would be awesome, if anyone knows the formula. Anyone?

I already said it. Slope to degrees. I want to emulate BROTRR's awesome physics.

Yes I'm sure that this graph you posted from Wikipedia is extremely relevant.

Yes I'm sure that this graph you posted from Wikipedia is extremely relevant.

Cirus, just take a look at that graph. Look at it. I don't understand the formulas on it, but it's a perfect representation of what I'm trying to do. Notice how the line rotates to match the angle of the slope it's resting on.

Now imagine the same thing but with the line not rotating, only positioning itself on the terrain. That's where I am now, in contrast to BROTRR, which rotates the rigs according to the angle of the ground beneath them. Now, calculating the slope is no problem.
((y2#-y1#)/(x2#-x1#))Given that as a variable, how would I find the degree measure equivalent to that?

tan(degrees) = rise/run

basic trig, although I will admit I googled it.  Which took all of 5 seconds to find.

So ang#=atan((y2#-y1#)/(x2#-x1#))?

THX GUYZ!!1

It's fcked up, man!

looks like it needs rotating by 180 degrees along the z axis, so maybe if you added something to the formula to accommodate that.

Nope, rotation is completely random. Afterwards, I tweaked it a little and got a BROTRR-themed strobelight.

EDIT: Oh. Well, I could try the abs() function like you said. 1 sec.

Tried it. Nope, didn't work. What if I send you a pre-pre-alpha demo?

Is this something you've coded yourself or does it run off an existing engine?

Coded it myself. The highest level thing below my own code is DarkBASIC, which is basically an interpreter based on DirectX.

So, out of all of the following code, what do you think is wrong?
acc#=0.5
ts#=6.0
maxr#=10.0
f#=0.0

do

    r#=(f#/ts#)*maxr#
    if rightkey() then yrotate object 1,wrapvalue(object angle y(1)+r#)
    if leftkey() then yrotate object 1,wrapvalue(object angle y(1)-r#)
    if upkey() then f#=f#+acc#
    if downkey() then f#=f#-acc#
    move object 1,f#
    f#=curvevalue(0.0,f#,ts#)

    x#=object position x(1)
    y#=object position y(1)
    z#=object position z(1)
    col=intersectObjectDBC(0,0,x#,255.0,z#,x#,0.0,z#,1)
    position object 1,x#,getStaticCollisionY(),z#
    rotate object 1,angle#(y#,getCollisionNormalY(),z#,getCollisionNormalZ()),object angle y(1),angle#(x#,getCollisionNormalX(),y#,getCollisionNormalY())
    set camera to follow x#,y#,z#,object angle y(1),object size z(1)*2.0,y#+(object size y(1)*2.0),5,0
    point camera x#,y#,z#
    position object 65535,camera position x(),camera position y(),camera position z()
    if escapekey() then pause=1
    if pause
        center text 400,300,"QUIT TO WINDOWS? Y/N"
        if lower$(inkey$())="y" then end
        if lower$(inkey$())="n" then pause=0
    endif
    sync
loop

function angle#(x1#,x2#,y1#,y2#)
    result#=wrapvalue(atan(abs((y2#-y1#)/failsafe#(x2#-x1#))))
endfunction result#

function failsafe#(result#)
    if result#=0 then result#=.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
endfunction result#

well who needs school for math when you can learn from instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well who needs school for math when you can learn from instead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But BROTRR isn't open-source, so how am I supposed to extract the answers to the mysteries within?