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Re: Moving an object in a scene
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Mon, 1 May 2000 04:49:23 GMT
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I got around to trying your tips Brams and they worked like a charm. The
result can be seen here
http://www.geocities.com/vci_99.geo/lego/azreal/Azreal.jpg
Thanks again
Jason
http://www.geocities.com/vci_99.geo/lego
In lugnet.cad.ray, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> "Jason Ellis" <jae@interwrx.com.nospam> writes:
> > In POV-Ray how does one go about changing the position of a model in
> > the scene. I've figured out how to move the camera around, but can't
> > figure out how to move an object. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Apparently, you already discovered that the
> object { my_model_dot_dat ... }
> line is the line that places the object. You can add all sorts of
> scaling, rotation, and translation to this line by adding "scale"
> "rotate" and "translate" modifiers. For example,
> object { my_model_dot_dat ... translate <100,-24,50> }
> would move the model 100 LDU in +X, 24 LDU up, and 50 LDU in +Z.
> You can also translate in only one direction (eg, 100 +X) like this:
> translate <100,0,0>
> or like this:
> translate x*100
> scale and rotate work the same way (although I'm not sure in which order
> the rotations are carried out, so I generally use the x*, y*, and z*
> notation for rotations.
> HTH,
> --Bram
>
>
> Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com
> -------------------oooo-----(_)-----oooo-------------------
> WWW: http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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