Actual size of a brick

[0xBRIANSMITH]

How do you convert a fxDTSBrick's .brickSizeX/Y/Z into Torque Units?

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[Pecon]

In my experience, getPosition() seems to get around the feet area. That's why you use getHackPosition() to get the position near the center.

[0xBRIANSMITH]

In my experience, getPosition() seems to get around the feet area. That's why you use getHackPosition() to get the position near the center.

oh it does lol.

[Xalos]

function fxDtsBrick::boundingBox(%brick)
{
     //%brick.getWorldBox(); does all of this, unless I'm remembering the name wrong
    //That's not the point, though, because this is just supposed to be an example.
    %data = %brick.getDatablock();
    if(%brick.getAngleID() & 1)
    { %sizeX = %data.brickSizeY / 2; %sizeY = %data.brickSizeX / 2; }
    else { %sizeX = %data.brickSizeX / 2; %sizeY = %data.brickSizeY / 2; }
    %sizeZ = %data.brickSizeZ / 5;
    return %sizeX SPC %sizeY SPC %sizeZ;   //The size of the brick in Torque units.
      //Explanation: The width and length of the brick are in studs, which are a half TU each.
     //The height, however, is in plates - if you plant down a 4x cube, you'll see it's 4 studs wide and 10 plates high.
    //Divide 4 studs by 2 studs/TU to get 2 TU, then divide 10 plates by that 2 TU to get 5 plates/TU - there's your answer.
}

EDIT: Also, don't completely overwrite your original post to ask a new question - make it clear that the first issue is solved and add a new one. Otherwise people might not be able to find the already-solved answer to their question and have to post the same exact topic again.

[$trinick]

Xalos' post is correct. You'll have to divide both X and Y by 2 (or multiply by .5) and divide Z by 5 (or multiply by .2). The reason I mention the multiplicative equivalents is because that's how much you have to add to that respective direction to move by 1 stud / plate.

[Port]

//%brick.getWorldBox(); does all of this, unless I'm remembering the name wrong

Not exactly. FxDTSBrick::getWorldBox() returns 6 words, the first 3 being the -X -Y -Z corner and the last 3 being the +X +Y +Z corner.

%box = %obj.getWorldBox();
%pos = getWord(%obj.getPosition(), 0) SPC getWord(%box, 1) SPC getWord(%box, 5)

In the case of %pos, the X coordinate is centered on the brick, the Y coordinate is on the far negative side and the Z coordinate is on the top face of the brick.

Conversely, it can be used to do the same thing though:

%box = %obj.getWorldBox();
%size = vectorSub(getWords(%box, 3, 5), getWords(%box, 0, 2));