"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> In the following scene, I get the "camera inside non-hollow object"
warning - is
> this a (previously unreported) bug?
>
> I get the warning even when (as in the scene below) the camera is
positioned
> outside the radius of the disk. In other words the disk behaves like a
plane.
>
> Ideally, I suppose one might expect never to get this warning with a disk,
> unless the camera was inside the radius of the disk and at the same height
as
> the disk, but I imagine that this is not possible. At anyrate, even if not
a
> bug, it might be worth a comment in the docs...

I thought disc was described in the Doc as being like a plane.

Ah ha! Yes it is, just checked. Says:

Note: The inside of a disc is the inside of the plane that contains the
disc. Also note that it is not constrained by the radius of the disc.

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