Re: [Visualpython-users] feature request

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 16:00:12 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Note too that in your application you might want to increase the "ambient"
> light a bit, so that no part of an object is very dark.

Yes, some good ideas coming up here to experiment with.

> I do see merit in an option to change from the default behavior (rotate the
> camera around a scene that has lights to that scene) to a behavior where
> the camera and lights are fixed and you rotate the scene, as though you
> were turning a model in your hand to inspect it from different angles but
> with a fixed light source.
>
> What would this be called? scene.camera_rotate = False?

Good question. That or maybe one of these?

scene.fixed_light = False
scene.light_on_camera = True

> The hard part though is the implementation.....

As so often ... :-)

Guy

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