Vectors

The math module offers a bunch of classes dealing with Vectors of different sizes. Vec2, Vec3, and Vec4. It should be noted that the Vec4 is not a Quaternion implementation!

Each vector comes with a Float and Int types. They ended with f and i respectively. For each of these types, these vectors come with an immutable and mutable versions. By default, LittleKt will use immutable vectors.

Immutable vectors:

val vec2f = Vec2f(1f, 1f)
val vec3f = Vec3f(1f, 1f, 1f)
val vec3i = Vec3i(1, 1, 1)

// we can invoke certain math functions on these vectors but expect an 'out' parameter to do so.
val otherVec3f = Vec3f(1f, 1f, 1f)
val result = MutableVec3f()
vec3f.add(otherVec3f, result)

We can easily convert an immutable vector to a mutable type:

val vec2f = Vec2f(1f, 1f)
val mutable: MutableVec2f = vec2f.toMutableVec()

// convert back to immutable
val immutable = mutable.toVec()

Vectors come with your standard vector math functions. Most of these come with operator functions as well:

• add: add scalars or another vector directly
• subtract: substract another vector
• mul: multiply vectors
• dot: the dot product between two vectors
• cross: the cross product between two vectors
• norm: normalizes a vector
• rotate: rotate the vector along an axis
• length: the length of a vector
• scale: scale the vector

Example:

val v = MutableVec3f()
v.add(1f, 2f, 3f)
v += Vec2f(1f, 2f, 3f)