POV-Ray : Newsgroups : moray.win : Orientation of text in Moray : Re: Orientation of text in Moray Server Time
6 Oct 2024 05:57:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Orientation of text in Moray  
From: Jamie Davison
Date: 16 Jun 2001 17:02:18
Message: <MPG.1595da09a8ef512a98995d@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 21:01:24 -0500, sshelby wrote...
> Why does Moray put text in so that it is facing up, instead of facing the
> front view? Every time I put text in a scene I have to rotate it -90x, which
> makes any later manipulation is more complicated, since it is not starting
> at zero. Is there any way to make text appear the right way (that is, facing
> the front view, rotation 0,0,0) to begin with?
> Thank you,

Well not automatically, but...

You create your text object.

Select it.

Click the Local Coordinates Button.

Enter -90 into the x Rotate box.

Click local coordinates again.

Tada!

I think that should work.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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