POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Local Transformations : Re: Local Transformations Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:29:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Local Transformations  
From: Ronald L  Parker
Date: 6 Jan 1999 23:22:53
Message: <36963665.129679744@news.povray.org>
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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