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6 Sep 2024 06:23:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help! I'm stuck!  
From: Simon de Vet
Date: 10 Dec 1998 20:37:12
Message: <3670859D.D479F01C@istar.ca>
Spectere wrote:

> Hi all!  I'm new to this board, and it appears to have some pretty smart
> people (if you want smart answers, don't go to some Quake players.
> hehe)
>
> Anyways, back on POV-Ray.  See, I'm having this weird problem.  For some
> reason, when I want to make "land" with a plane, all the plane does is
> point straight up!  Now when I edit in Quake (a really popular game), X
> is across your monitor (from left to right) Y is forward and back (from
> your perspective) and Z is up and down.  Is it like this in POV-Ray or
> am I going insane?  Is there any way I can change it to be "Quake-like"?

It is like that in Moray, a visual based modeller for POVray.. this is a
righthanded system, and is, of course, FAR superior to the left handed
system, which POV uses by default :)

The Lefthanded system is documented in the manual. Though, once you know one
system, it is next to impossible to try and convert

Simon
http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet


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