I often use "orthographic" in the camera definition. In the latest
release beta 10 this results in an error: Parse error: Expected
'camera-modifier', orthographic found instead.
In the help I don't find anything about this change.
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Herman Serras
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:33:06 +0100, Herman Serras <Her### [at] pandorabe>
wrote:
> I often use "orthographic" in the camera definition. In the latest
> release beta 10 this results in an error: Parse error: Expected
> 'camera-modifier', orthographic found instead.
> In the help I don't find anything about this change.

Below is parsed ok:

camera{orthographic up y}

but below returns your message

camera{up y orthographic}

For me it is expected behaviour becous documentation says in 6.4.2 : "In general
the CAMERA_TYPE should be the first item in a camera statement."

If you want old behaviour just change version befor and after camera definition.
Below works fine:

#version 3.1;
camera{up y orthographic}
#version 3.5;

ABX

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In article <3C442F92.38DF7824@pandora.be>, "Herman Serras"
<Her### [at] pandorabe> wrote:

> I often use "orthographic" in the camera definition. In the latest
> release beta 10 this results in an error: Parse error: Expected
> 'camera-modifier', orthographic found instead. In the help I don't find
> anything about this change.

Try moving "orthographic" to the first line of the camera definition.
I'm not sure the syntax changes made it into the docs.

-Mark Gordon

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Thank you, this works.
However as you express, this syntax change isn't made in the docs (as
far as I see).

Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> In article <3C442F92.38DF7824@pandora.be>, "Herman Serras"
> <Her### [at] pandorabe> wrote:
> 
> > I often use "orthographic" in the camera definition. In the latest
> > release beta 10 this results in an error: Parse error: Expected
> > 'camera-modifier', orthographic found instead. In the help I don't find
> > anything about this change.
> 
> Try moving "orthographic" to the first line of the camera definition.
> I'm not sure the syntax changes made it into the docs.
> 
> -Mark Gordon

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Herman Serras
Gent (Belgium)
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:52:21 +0100, Herman Serras <Her### [at] pandorabe>
wrote:
> However as you express, this syntax change isn't made in the docs (as
> far as I see).

If there is any hole in 3.5 documentation then you should report it in
povray.beta-test group with [doc] prefix in subject, however I pointed you in
this thread documentation says in 6.4.2 : "In general
the CAMERA_TYPE should be the first item in a camera statement."

ABX

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> 
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:52:21 +0100, Herman Serras <Her### [at] pandorabe>
> wrote:
> > However as you express, this syntax change isn't made in the docs (as
> > far as I see).
> 
> If there is any hole in 3.5 documentation then you should report it in
> povray.beta-test group with [doc] prefix in subject, however I pointed you in
> this thread documentation says in 6.4.2 : "In general
> the CAMERA_TYPE should be the first item in a camera statement."

That's true but in the same paragraph I read:
"If you add the orthographic keyword after all other parameters of a
perspective camera you'll get an orthographic view with the same image
area"...
So you can understand my confusion.

> 
> ABX

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Herman Serras
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:40:44 +0100, Herman Serras <Her### [at] pandorabe>
wrote:
> So you can understand my confusion.

Also in 6.4 is sentence: "CAMERA_ITEMs may legally appear in any order but the
order of some items is critical to the proper functioning of the camera."

So you should make doc-bug-report in povray.beta-test definietly.

ABX

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I always used orthographic as the last word in camera definition cause this
is the only way I can guess the visible area. How do I easily swap between
perspective and orthographic??

Hugo

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In article <3c44a3dd$1@news.povray.org> , "Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote:

> I always used orthographic as the last word in camera definition cause this
> is the only way I can guess the visible area. How do I easily swap between
> perspective and orthographic??

By either using perspective or orthographic...

    Thorsten

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