Ben Chambers wrote:
> 
> "Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote in message
> news:3B7DCB3E.D9D4B910@videotron.ca...
> > I know it's Waaaaaay too late for inclusion in 3.5, but this might be
> > food for thought for 4.0 (or 3.6)
> >
> > Instead of having the camera right:up vector ratio default to 4:3 and
> > providing image_height and image_width built-in variables so that we can
> > adjust the value of the vectors to match the image aspect ratio, why not
> > have it default to image_width:image_heigth?
> >
> > [Not part of the TAG, nor the POV-Team, but I happen to have a few very
> > good ideas of what's going to be in 3.5]
> 
> Well, sometimes (when making heightfields) I change the image dimensions to
> increase the detail in a certain direction, or because I don't need that
> high resolution.  Having these changes affect the camera would mean that I
> would _have_ to use the same aspect ratio for my images (ie, I couldn't go
> from 100x500 to 100x1000 without changing the whole scene).

There's nothing preventing you from setting the up and right vectors to
a specific value.  I was just talking about changing the default
behaviour.

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