Re: Perfly on Performer Town

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Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:27:01 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian Corrie wrote:

> I have noticed a very strange "feature" when using Perfly on our Onyx2, 6.5,
> Performer 2.2.1. When I start up perfly with the town database, it starts
> up fine but when everything is loaded and I try to "drive" forward the view
> I get is skewed slightly. That is, it appears as if I am looking out the
> front left of my "windshield" instead of out the front, alhtough I am
> driving in the direction I would expect (straight forward). The same happens
> for the cuevadefuego demo from the Friends CD. Unfortuantely, we don't have
> any other 6.5 machines with 2.2.1 so I can't determine whether or not it is
> a 2.2.1 thing, a 6.5 thing, or an Onyx2 thing...
  
Just a wild guess -

  Is it possible that someone has set up an ircombine setting that makes the
managed area larger than the screen you are viewing it on?

  Some programs open up a window that (by default at least) covers the entire
managed area.

  So, you could be looking at just a portion of the image - and that would
make the vanishing point for perspective and the place you are driving
towards be somewhere other than the center of the screen. That can happen
on most machines - you may be seeing it only on your ONYX 2 simply because
of how it happens to be set up.

Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-2466 (Fax)
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