Hi Folks,

I was playing with a macro to create area lights and hit a snag. One of the
parameters was a transform{} block to position the light and this seems to
be working wrong.

After some tinkering I came up with a fairly minimal scene that shows the
problem on my system, in that using a rotate and translate either directly
or in a transform{} block give different results in the Windows version of
3.6.1c.

Can someone confirm the problem or point out what I'm doing wrong? I find it
hard to believe that it is a bug in such a well used part of the code ...

Thanks,

Mike Andrews.

// --- Start of areaLightTransform.pov ---

// +w640 +h480 +a0.1
// Change useTransform to 'on' to see problem

#declare useTransform = off;

global_settings {
  assumed_gamma 1.0
  max_trace_level 50
  ambient_light 1
}

camera {
 up <0, 1, 0>
 right x*image_width/image_height
 location  <-1, 15, -25>
 angle     10
 look_at   0
}

plane {
  y, 0
  pigment { rgb 1 }
  finish { diffuse 1 ambient 0 brilliance 0.5 }
}

light_source {
  0, rgb 1
  area_light x,y, 2,2
  #if (useTransform)
    transform {rotate -90*x translate <0,2,0>}
  #else
    rotate -90*x translate <0,2,0>
  #end
}

#declare tBlack = texture {
  pigment { rgb 0 }
  finish { diffuse 0 ambient 0 }
}

cylinder { -y,0.3*y,0.02 translate < 0,0,-1> texture {tBlack} }
cylinder { -y,0.3*y,0.02 translate <-1,0,0>  texture {tBlack} }
cylinder { -y,0.3*y,0.02 translate < 0,0,0>  texture {tBlack} }
cylinder { -y,0.3*y,0.02 translate < 1,0,0>  texture {tBlack} }
cylinder { -y,0.3*y,0.02 translate < 0,0,1>  texture {tBlack} }

// --- End of areaLightTransform.pov ---

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