POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : OpenGL wireframe preview patch available : Re: OpenGL patch update (June 14/2003) Server Time
30 Jun 2024 19:26:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: OpenGL patch update (June 14/2003)  
From: Ray Gardener
Date: 15 Jun 2003 19:27:15
Message: <3eed00d3$1@news.povray.org>
>
> > Yeah, that file's camera is a tough one for the
> > wireframer to handle. Anything that uses "look_at",
> > actually, is likely to be off. I have to keep
> > working on the camera support.
>
> You should be able to translate any perspective or orthographic camera
> pretty directly into OpenGL...what are you doing that makes it so hard?
> Just let the existing code parse the camera, and use the values it comes
> up with.

I'm calling gluPerspective() and gluLookAt().
I haven't had time to get into explicitly
setting up the OpenGL projection and modelview
matrices.

But that's the charm of open source -- if it
bothers you so much, and it's so simple to
you what the solution is, then you don't have to wait
for me to "enter the matrix." :)

Ray


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