POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Newbie error or beta bug? : Re: Newbie error or beta bug? Server Time
6 Sep 2024 10:13:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Newbie error or beta bug?  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 19 Aug 1998 10:23:50
Message: <35dad1e6.0@news.povray.org>
On 19 Aug 1998 00:56:55 -0500, Brett Kugler 
        <w00### [at] mailairmailnet> wrote:

>translate <x y z>
>
>does not translate correctly in the -z direction, instead it acts like a -y
>translate.

>//object{wing_bone scale <1.0 0.4 1.0> translate <-6.0 0.0 -3.0>}

The problem here is that POV can't tell whether to parse "0.0 -3.0" as 
"0.0-3.0" or "0.0, -3.0" and it chooses the former.  Really old versions of
POV supported vectors without commas, and the current version continues to
attempt to support them for backward compatibility, but for all new code, 
you should use commas inside vectors.


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