I am a newbie with Moray and have a question about setting up a camera...I
can't seem to find a way to set the rendering camera to a parallel view
render rather than perspective view.  In other words, I don't want to
actually see the depth of a rendered object...just the front face.  Am I
missing something...Is there a simple fix or...?  Thanks in advance for any
help.

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Cyrus G wrote:
> 
> I am a newbie with Moray and have a question about setting up a camera...I
> can't seem to find a way to set the rendering camera to a parallel view
> render rather than perspective view.  In other words, I don't want to
> actually see the depth of a rendered object...just the front face.  Am I
> missing something...Is there a simple fix or...?  Thanks in advance for any
> help.

Specify an orthographic camera type.

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Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Sorry Ken, may have accidentally emailed you...but we'll put this question
back out to the group...

My newbieness is showing and I can't seem to find the property settings for
the cameras...I've tried the help file for 'ortho' and 'camera' and can't
seem to find any info.  Thanks again.

C

>
> Specify an orthographic camera type.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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Cyrus G <cyr### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> My newbieness is showing and I can't seem to find the property
settings for
> the cameras...I've tried the help file for 'ortho' and 'camera'
and can't
> seem to find any info.  Thanks again.

I don't think your newbieness is the problem. ;)  To my knowledge
(as a Moray User),  Moray doesn't support the orthographic
camera -- but if you take a look at the pov docs, it would not be
tough to hand code in (from what I looked at... famous last words
;).

Claire

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> > I am a newbie with Moray and have a question about setting up a
> > camera...I can't seem to find a way to set the rendering camera to 
> > a parallel view render rather than perspective view.
> 
> Specify an orthographic camera type.

That's correct, but AFAIK, you cannot setup an orthographic camera in
Moray itself. You'll have to do it after exporting to .POV.
It's easy then, as you'll only have to add the orthographic keyword to
the camera definition, but it'll probably be hard to find the correct
field of view.
However, you'll have to do this every time you want to render your
scene, so I really cannot recommend using orthographic cameras in
Moray...

Florian

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Thanks for the quick replies...I guess I will try to work around it.

C

Florian Fischer <flo### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> > > I am a newbie with Moray and have a question about setting up a
> > > camera...I can't seem to find a way to set the rendering camera to
> > > a parallel view render rather than perspective view.
> >
> > Specify an orthographic camera type.
>
> That's correct, but AFAIK, you cannot setup an orthographic camera in
> Moray itself. You'll have to do it after exporting to .POV.
> It's easy then, as you'll only have to add the orthographic keyword to
> the camera definition, but it'll probably be hard to find the correct
> field of view.
> However, you'll have to do this every time you want to render your
> scene, so I really cannot recommend using orthographic cameras in
> Moray...
>
> Florian
>

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Thanks for the quick replies...I guess I will try to work around it.
Thanks.

C

jivvy <web### [at] freegraphicscom> wrote in message
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> Cyrus G <cyr### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:38c29b73@news.povray.org...
> > My newbieness is showing and I can't seem to find the property
> settings for
> > the cameras...I've tried the help file for 'ortho' and 'camera'
> and can't
> > seem to find any info.  Thanks again.
>
> I don't think your newbieness is the problem. ;)  To my knowledge
> (as a Moray User),  Moray doesn't support the orthographic
> camera -- but if you take a look at the pov docs, it would not be
> tough to hand code in (from what I looked at... famous last words
> ;).
>
> Claire
>
>

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