POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Orthographic support broken : Re: Orthographic support broken Server Time
30 Jul 2024 08:19:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Orthographic support broken  
From: Gergely Vandor
Date: 19 Jan 2002 18:58:23
Message: <Xns919CA01DFA66gerovandordatanethu@204.213.191.226>
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3c4a0572@news.povray.org: 

[snip]
>> It  seems that you never checked the actual scene, and didn't even
>> read the bug report carefully.
> 
> If you think this, fine.
> 

[snip]

>> Again, this is simply wrong.
> 
> No, it isn't.  The changes seen when using the "angle" keyword are
> caused by the direction vector length which is changed by "angle" as
> you can read in the manual.  The vista buffer code apparently does not
> expect these changes and thus causes the objects to "disappear", which
> simply means there are no intersection tests because the vista buffer
> has "optimized" them away based on the camera.
> 

Oh, I am sorry then, I was wrong. I hope you weren't offended, and thank you for the
explanation.

Gergely


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