<function name="Matrix" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Returns a <page>VMatrix</page> object.</description> <description>Returns a <page>VMatrix</page> object, a 4x4 matrix.</description> <realm>Shared</realm> <args> <arg name="data" type="table" default="{{1, 0, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 0, 1}}">Initial data to initialize the matrix with. Leave empty to initialize an identity matrix. See examples for usage. Can be a <page>VMatrix</page> to copy its data.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="VMatrix">New matrix.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Initializes a matrix, translates it by <page>Vector</page>( 4, 5, 6 ) and then scales it by <page>Vector</page>( 1, 2, 3 ).</description> <code> local M = Matrix() M:Translate( Vector( 4, 5, 6 ) ) M:Scale( Vector( 1, 2, 3 ) ) -- This matrix is equivalent: local M2 = Matrix( { { 1, 0, 0, 4 }, { 0, 2, 0, 5 }, { 0, 0, 3, 6 }, { 0, 0, 0, 1 } } ) </code> </example>