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From: "Tyrone McAuley" <tyrone@ttp.co.nz>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: GsCOORD2PARAM?
Date: 24 Jul 1997 10:21:53 GMT
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Developer Support <dev_support@interactive.sony.com> wrote in article
<33CDED82.5D94@interactive.sony.com>...
> Tyrone McAuley wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have any experience using the GsCOORD2PARAM *param of the
> > GsCOORDINATE2 struct.
> > 
> > It seems to be implemented and has the struct description in libps.h,
but a
> > bit of experimentation has not produced any results.
> > 
> > Is this variable used at all?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Mario
> 
> 
> This is an _internal_ variable of the GsCOORDINATE2 structure.
> I have never needed to use it for anything;
> all the manipulations of 3d objects - movement, rotation,
> scaling, shearing, morphing, etc - can all be done
> by MATRIX or GsCOORDINATE2 structures.
> 

I understand that object transformations can be performed by using
matrices, however it just seemed as though this might be a faster and
possibly easier way of doing things.  

By "internal" i guess you mean that this is used by the hardware as
workspace or is otherwise non user writable.  Correct?

Thanks,

Mario