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  Re: Adding text in a local coordinate system  
From: Tim
Date: 11 Apr 2006 12:05:00
Message: <web.443bd39513f8e94cdecfa30@news.povray.org>
"wollinger" <wol### [at] gmznet> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a scene where all of my objects are shifted by a vector
> <400000,255000,0>. The height_field displays a mountain with an approx
> altitude of 2000 meters. Dimensions of the whole area is 50x50 km. My
> camera is therefore somewhere in the middle <425000,280000,3000> and I
> declared a Scene_Center at <425000,285000,2000> . The camera is lookin_at
> the Scene_Center. Now I want to display some text in this scene. How can I
> achive that the text is displayed normal to my setup? The font is always
> skewed. Are there any "tutorials" whow to deal with a local grid?
>
> Thanks
> Wolfgang
>
> Sorry that I can't post any code at the moment, but my file needs to be
> cleanded up first.

Hi Wollinger,

I think the include file Charles C is referring to is screen.inc.  Theres a
scene file providing an example of its use at scenes/incdemo/screen.pov

Tim


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