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29 Jul 2024 08:17:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Camera angles problem  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 18 Aug 2013 23:31:37
Message: <op.w11n2xb3ufxv4h@xena>
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:09:35 +0200, clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Am 18.08.2013 22:39, schrieb Alain:

> You know what? This sucks. The issue of trying to figure out the camera  
> parameters crops up so frequently that I think it really needs to be  
> addressed in the form of an inbuilt feature at the next possible  
> opportunity.

I agree.

> I'm thinking along the lines of (1) a function (or set of functions) to  
> retrieve the effective up, right and direction vectors, and (2) a  
> function (or pair of functions) to return the effective camera position  
> and direction vector corresponding to any given position in the output  
> image (x,y ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 each). Also nice to have would be (3)  
> a function to retrieve the effective camera angle (if applicable for the  
> selected camera).
>
That would be fantastic!
and how about a  point_at option for objects that works the same way as  
look at?
And a "up" option for  objects as well.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-


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