POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Local Transformations : Re: Local Transformations Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:32:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Local Transformations  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 7 Jan 1999 01:35:16
Message: <369455AE.B8977B3B@aol.com>
You're hardly an idiot.

"Ronald L. Parker" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:56:08 -0800, Tony Vigil <tvi### [at] emc-inccom>
> wrote:
> 
> >Is there any way to do local transformations based on an object's
> >current scale, position & rotation?  (i.e. a translation on an object's
> >X axis as apposed to the origin's X axis)
> >
> >If there isn't currently a way to do this, is there enough interest for
> >someone to create a patch?
> 
> Maybe I'm an idiot, but if you can't just put the translate along the
> X axis in before whatever transformation moved it to the new position,
> how is the software going to know what you thought the X axis was?

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