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From: Steven Osman <sosman@terratron.com>
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Subject: Re: Orthographic Projection
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:16:03 -0500
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I meant parallel projection (which is also called orthographic
projection).  Basically, all points are the same size regardless of
their distance from the camera, so you don't have perspective where
all parallel lines merge at some distant point in the scene.

Sauce


On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:40:23 -0500, "Omar" <OMetwally7@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>hi guy,
>
>by 'orthographic' projection, do you mean the camera is directly above the
>characters/scene?  kinda like in grand theft auto I?  if so, then set all of
>your vrx,y,z and vpx,y,z to 0 relative to your character.  then, set
>view.vry to a negative value.
>
>hope this helps,
>-Omar
>