<div dir="ltr">That image doesn't match what I think you are saying, so maybe you can help me understand. You mention the camera is positioned on a cylinder of radius 3.0 and from your code it looks like the focal point is not changing.<div><br></div><div>If that is true then at some point some of the cones will be behind your camera. For example if your focal point was (0,0,0) and your camera was at (3,10,0) then you would be looking mostly down the y axis and from your code you have a cone positioned at (0,20,0) which would be behind you.</div><div><br></div><div>Having said all that your image looks funny anyhow. With a parallel projection all the cones should look the exact same aside from clipping but the first cone really looks off from the rest and the others are all identical so something is off.</div><div><br></div><div>I did look through that code and it looks reasonable to me (the patch referenced is not correct BTW, parallel projection still requires proper z buffer scaling and clipping) If you could provide a few more images from different viewpoints, ideally with the resulting camera </div><div><br></div><div>clipping range</div><div>parallel scale </div><div>position</div><div>focal point</div><div><br></div><div>for those images that would help me see what is going on.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Elvis Stansvik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com" target="_blank">elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>I have a setup where the camera always moves on a cylinder of radius 3.0 around my subject (just testing with a stack of cones at the moment). The focal point is always positioned along the Y axis, and the camera may be moved up and down independent of the focus point, but the camera is always at a distance of 3 from the Y axis.<br><br></div>As soon as the user moves the camera, I reset the camera clipping range with ResetCameraClippingRange(). Despite this, when the camera and the focal point are far away from eachother, the actors (my stack of cones) get clipped by the near plane for some reason.<br><br></div>See the attached screenshot which shows the clipping.<br><br></div>What I'm doing to my camera (in response to Shift+mouse drag in my custom interactor) to end up in this situation is just:<br><br> camera = renderer.GetActiveCamera()<br> (x, y, z) = camera.GetPosition()<br> camera.SetPosition(x, y - self.PanningFactor * dy, z)<br> renderer.ResetCameraClippingRange()<br><br></div>and I've verified that the camera is always at a distance of 3.0 from the Y axis.<br><br></div>The cones I'm using in this test were created with:<br><br> for i in range(-10, 20):<br> coneSource = vtkConeSource()<br> coneSource.SetDirection(0, 1, 0)<br> coneSource.SetResolution(8)<br> coneSource.SetCenter(0, i, 0)<br><br> coneMapper = vtkPolyDataMapper()<br> coneMapper.SetInputConnection(coneSource.GetOutputPort())<br><br> coneActor = vtkActor()<br> coneActor.SetMapper(coneMapper)<br><br> widget.renderer.AddActor(coneActor)<br><br></div>I don't understand why I see clipping occur here, since I'm using ResetCameraClippingRange, and nothing is behind the camera. The radius of these cones is the default (0.5).<br><br></div>It's probably something stupid, but any advice is much appreciated.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Elvis<br></font></span></div>
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