Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> 
> Johannes Hubert schrieb in Nachricht <36af6f3b.0@news.povray.org>...
> >Rudy Velthuis wrote in message <36af6b69.0@news.povray.org>...
> >[snip]
> >>
> >>Also in POV I have the freedom of choosing the order of scale, rotate and
> >>translate, and not always depend on the order given by the modeller. In
> the
> >>model I'm currently trying to do, it would really be much easier if Moray
> >>would translate before rotating.
> >
> >
> >A hint for that:
> >
> >When you say you want to translate before rotate, I guess that you *want*
> >the object to orbit around the origin, when you rotate.
> >Try this: Translate your object as wished, then create a group and add the
> >object to it (it will probably be the only object in the group). Then
> rotate
> >the group as wished: Voila! Same effect as "first translating, then
> >rotating" - at the expense of some additional "bloated" code ;-)
> 
> I did exactly that. But I still didn't like the fact I had to do it. IMHO,
> it's much clumsier (and slower) than just writing out the code by hand. But
> that's perhaps because I'm just not familiar enough with modellers to do
> this stuff intuitively.
hmm.. I don't feel that I want to be more familiar ;-)
> 
> I hated the way GUIs work in the beginning too. I though it was much easier
> to write "copy C:\x\y\filea d:\z\f\fileb" than clicking on a file, choosing
> copy, go to another directory and click the menu again, choosing paste and
> then renaming the file using another menu item. Of course now we have drag
> and drop, but it's still clumsier than a command line sometimes. But I
> wouldn't want to miss the modern GUI anymore.
Or miss the NC styl, one directory at each side, hit F5...
Just love WindowsCommander...

//Spider

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