"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3c445f24@news.povray.org...
> In article <3C445DAB.688AEA43@pandora.be> , Herman Serras
> <Her### [at] pandorabe>  wrote:
>
> > If you add the orthographic keyword after all other parameters of a
> > perspective camera you'll get an orthographic view with the same image
> > area
> >
> > So to obtain an orthographic view in beta 10 one has to change the place
> > of the word "orthographic".
>
> Yes, this part of the docs has not been updated.  It no longer matters
where
> "orthographic" appears to change its behavior.  The "trick" explained in
> this place in the docs now always works as long as any of the modifiers
only
> valid for perspective cameras are used.  This change allows to require the
> camera type to always be the first thing in a camera statement, which
> corrects some misunderstandings of the previous functionality, but still
> keeps previously all available features.

Camera type must be the first keyword in a camera statement now or the parse
will error.

bob h

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