Create cylinders from two points and given radius in maxscript

[Anonymous]

How two creat cylinders from two points and given radius in 3dsmax maxscript? Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I actually only want to know how to proper rotate the cylinder after I create it and move it to point1. I was using the following code to calculate the eulerAngle but apparently the result is a wrong rotating direction.

fn drawCylinderBetweenTwoPoints pt1 pt2=
(
	vec=pt2-pt1
	he=sqrt((pt1[1]-pt2[1])^2+(pt1[2]-pt2[2])^2+(pt1[3]-pt2[3])^2)
	cy=cylinder() 
    cy.pos=pt1
    cy.radius=2
    cy.height=he
	

    r = sqrt(vec[1]*vec[1] + vec[2]*vec[2] + vec[3]*vec[3])
    t = atan(vec[2]/vec[1])
    p = acos(vec[3]/r)
	
	euler12=eulerAngles r t p
    cy.rotation=euler12 
	
	return cy
)

[Anonymous]

New problem, in some case, the cylinder would perfectly created, but in other cases, there is a problem that is related to Quaternion. The actual rotating angle required does not equal to the angle of two vectors

[Swordslayer · Accepted solution]

Would this be enough?

fn drawCylinderBetweenTwoPoints pt1 pt2=
	cylinder radius:2 pos:pt1 dir:(pt2-pt1) height:(distance pt1 pt2)

[Anonymous]

Wow that is perfect ok, how could you know that.