Greetings.

I am going through the moray tutorial (is it OK to ask a question of
that here?).

It says this: "Use the mouse or the transformation buttons to set the
spotlights position to {-10,0,10}. Now we'll rotate the spotlight,
which is currently facing straight down, to point at the sphere. To
control the orientation of the spot light visually we'll replace the
SIDE view with the 3D view of the SpotCam.

Right click while in the SIDE view. Select View Type and choose the
item SpotCam001. This view shows the scene as seen from the
spotlight's point of view (or illumination). "

But when I right click on the SIDE view all I get for menu choices
are:
enable snap, zoom to fit, zoom, pan, select, redraw, maximize, lock
grid, disable grid.

Can someone point me to the option or whatever that enables the "view
type" to become enabled so I can turn the SIDE frame into a camera
view?

Thanks
Jeff

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Hi
You must right click on the side view NAME (top left corner of the view)
Marc

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iE=NPebSGLlULAUOUSHkZm7izPvP@4ax.com...
> Can someone point me to the option or whatever that enables the "view
> type" to become enabled so I can turn the SIDE frame into a camera
> view?

What I think you are trying to do is to
to convert you side view to a camera view directly
(making the location and look at of the side view
the location and look at of the camera).
Well, that's not possible in Moray, since
the Top, Front and Side views are orthographic
views and not related to the position and target
of your camera(s).
In the camera view you have to move your camera
to make the view change too.
You can move your camera as any other object
in the other three views to set its location and
look at. Your camera view chages while you
do that, so it's very easy and intuitive.
(You can also enter the numeric values directly
in the location and look at fields of the camera
object).
Hope this helps.
Bye.

Txemi Jendrix
http://www.txemijendrix.com

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Hi Txemi Jendrix, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> .. convert you side view to a camera view directly
> (making the location and look at of the side view
> the location and look at of the camera).
> Well, that's not possible in Moray, ....
Sure it is.
You can have all 4 views be camera views if you want. And you can
assign different cameras to each view, too.
Marc is right, I think he missed right-clicking on the name of the
view. 

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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> Hi Txemi Jendrix, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> > .. convert you side view to a camera view directly
> > (making the location and look at of the side view
> > the location and look at of the camera).
> > Well, that's not possible in Moray, ....
> Sure it is.
> You can have all 4 views be camera views if you want. And you can
> assign different cameras to each view, too.
> Marc is right, I think he missed right-clicking on the name of the
> view.

I thought he was trying to change from side view to camera
view pretending to obtain the same "view" (the same
location and look at) directly.
Seems I missunderstood him.

Txemi Jendrix
http://www.txemijendrix.com

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Thanks for your kind replies.
As I originally mentioned, though possibly not clearly,
 I was just trying to follow the tutorial along, and came to this step
which (how to do) was not clear. I was quoting from the tutorial. This
is the first time I have seen the right click menu vary by where on
the window you were clicking, albeit on what I thought was just part
of the window, but I guess in retrospect, is probably a control or
something.

Thanks
Jeff

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 13:10:36 -0500, Jeff Kish
<ELN/kishj@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Greetings.
>
>I am going through the moray tutorial (is it OK to ask a question of
>that here?).
>
>It says this: "Use the mouse or the transformation buttons to set the
>spotlights position to {-10,0,10}. Now we'll rotate the spotlight,
>which is currently facing straight down, to point at the sphere. To
>control the orientation of the spot light visually we'll replace the
>SIDE view with the 3D view of the SpotCam.
>
>Right click while in the SIDE view. Select View Type and choose the
>item SpotCam001. This view shows the scene as seen from the
>spotlight's point of view (or illumination). "
>
>But when I right click on the SIDE view all I get for menu choices
>are:
>enable snap, zoom to fit, zoom, pan, select, redraw, maximize, lock
>grid, disable grid.
>
>Can someone point me to the option or whatever that enables the "view
>type" to become enabled so I can turn the SIDE frame into a camera
>view?
>
>Thanks
>Jeff

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Hi Jeff Kish, you recently wrote in moray.win:

>  I was just trying to follow the tutorial along, ...
You're right in that the tutorials haven't been updated to that new
feature. It was added because the view popup menu became too
cluttered, so I split it into view-related items that appear when you
click over the name and other stuff that appears elsewhere.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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