Re: Performer is rotating my axis!!

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:45:55 -0800

Geoff Levner wrote:
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>
> I have never used the Inventor loader, but I have used the VRML loader, and
> presumably they behave the same way. In that case, what is happening is
> that the loader is automatically converting your models from their normal,
> sensible, Y-up coordinate system to Performer's brain-dead Z-up coordinate
> system.

There are those who think that both these systems are brain dead and
that a good old z down coordinate system is the only one which makes any
sense. One man's convention is another man's poison.

Cheers,Angus.

-- 
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with
 no loss of enthusiasm."    -    Winston Churchill.


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