POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Scene Creation : Re: Scene Creation Server Time
6 Sep 2024 04:23:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Scene Creation  
From: Ken
Date: 25 Jan 1999 07:04:13
Message: <36AC5DB1.298AC7F0@pacbell.net>
Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> : Moray is by far the most popular
> : modeling program for Pov but I never liked it because it uses
> : a reversed coordinate sytem that is not the default used by Pov.
> 
>   It still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in computer land to me
> why there cannot be an option in moray preferences settings to change the
> coordinate system. Something like "Use POV-Ray-style left-handed coordinates"
> with a checkbox which you can turn on.
>   Perhaps this great mystery will be revealed some day...
> 

I asked Lutz about this once and his reply was that he is only
comfortable in a right handed system and so that is the way it's
going to stay. If we could retrain Lutz then maybe someday it
will change.

-- 
Ken Tyler

tyl### [at] pacbellnet


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