I suppose in 3.5 beta 10 there's a change concerning the syntaxis for
using different types of cameras.

Paragraph 6.4.2. of the docs starts with:

The following list explains the different projection types that can be
used with the camera. The most common types are the perspective and
orthographic projections. In
general the CAMERA_TYPE should be the first item in a camera statement.
If none is specified, the perspective camera is the default.

But further we can read:

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".


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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.

    Thorsten

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in news:3C445DAB.688AEA43@pandora.be Herman Serras wrote:

> So to obtain an orthographic view in beta 10 one has to change the place
> of the word "orthographic".
> 

The doc will be changed,

Ingo

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"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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By the way, is 'angle' supposed to have some effect in a panoramic camera?

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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In article <3c44a012@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   By the way, is 'angle' supposed to have some effect in a panoramic camera?

it depends on where it is in the camera statement...


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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
:>   By the way, is 'angle' supposed to have some effect in a panoramic camera?

: it depends on where it is in the camera statement...

  So where does it have some effect?

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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In article <3c44b23c@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

> : it depends on where it is in the camera statement...
>
>   So where does it have some effect?

Some me your camera and I can explain what happens currently.


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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
: Some me your camera and I can explain what happens currently.

  angle seems to have no effect whatsoever:

camera
{ panoramic
  location -z look_at 0
  angle 30
}
light_source { y*100, 1 }
plane { y,-1 pigment { checker rgb 1, rgb .5 } }


-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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In article <3c44bfde@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   angle seems to have no effect whatsoever:
>
> camera
> { panoramic
>   location -z look_at 0
>   angle 30
> }
> light_source { y*100, 1 }
> plane { y,-1 pigment { checker rgb 1, rgb .5 } }

Is angle supposed to work with other camera types than "perspective"?

    Thorsten

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