Re: [Visualpython-users] feature request

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

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I'm traveling and unable to do this myself right now, but you could
achieve the effect by putting the distant lights into a frame and then
sitting in a loop (maybe with rate(50) to limit processing) and
watching scene.forward. Use any change in scene.forward to determine
how to rotate the frame containing the distant lights. Should work.<br>
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Bruce Sherwood<br>
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Guy K. Kloss wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Thu, 07 May 2009 16:00:12 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">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.
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Yes, some good ideas coming up here to experiment with.

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    <pre wrap="">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?
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Good question. That or maybe one of these?

scene.fixed_light = False
scene.light_on_camera = True

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    <pre wrap="">The hard part though is the implementation.....
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As so often ... :-)

Guy

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