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Confusing terms

Discussion in 'Documentation' started by Tortuap, Nov 8, 2016.

  1. Tortuap

    Tortuap

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    Hi

    I'm confused by the definition of Bounds.extents and Physics.BoxCast parameter named halfExtents.

    Bounds.extents : The extents of the box. This is always half of the size.
    Physics.BoxCast, param halfExtents : Half the size of the box in each dimension.

    What I've usually seen is that extents is half a size.
    But in case of Physics.BoxCast, the name halfExtents is confusing me. Shouldn't it be named halfSize ? or just extents, like Bounds is doing to express half size ?

    Thanks for your consideration.
    Regards.
     
    Tortuap, Nov 8, 2016
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  2. Graham-Dunnett

    Graham-Dunnett

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    I'll let the documentation team know about this post. Hard for me to work out if this is a docs team of R&D team problem.
     
    Graham-Dunnett, Nov 15, 2016
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