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From: "Ed Federmeyer" <Ed_Federmeyer@mw.3com.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics,scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Camera math
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:42:33 -0600
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I have read a lot of books and online documentation describing all the 3D
matrix math to transform object-space coordinates to world-space coordinates
to screen-space coordinates, but they ALL ASSUME that the camera is at the
origin facing down the "Z" axis.

Can anyone point me to some documentation that describes what needs to be
done to have the camera at an arbitrary location facing in an arbirtrary
direction?

Luckily our Net Yaroze libs take care of this with the SetRView() function,
where you specify the viewpoint and refpoint, but I'd really like to
understand what goes on behind the scenes.

EdF