On 26 Apr 2005 10:46:11 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Shay <s.s@s> wrote:
> > Put your "always on top" object in its own light group. Move the object 
> > and its lights very close to the camera after scaling them so that the 
> > object appears to be at the same distance as its original position.
>
> This can be easily done like this:
>
> object
> { TheObject
>   translate -CameraLocation
>   scale 1/100
>   translate CameraLocation
> }

Not fully ontopic but this "classic" trick is not specific to 3D CG world
http://www.martinliebscher.de/ufo.htm

ABX

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