Re: Performer is rotating my axis!!

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Christian Greuel (greuel++at++realtimearts.com)
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:13:42 -0800

I've always advocated using an X-up coordinate
system, just to make everybody sweat %^)

Arbitrarily,
Chris

Angus Dorbie wrote:
>
> Geoff Levner wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> Performer + OpenGL examples and tutors: http://www.dorbie.com/

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