clipping range problems in recent nightly release

[Volpe, Christopher R (CRD)]

Ok, it seems that the renderer intentionally generates a tighter camera clipping range around the
visible actors. The result, though, is that dollying the camera causes the scene to be clipped almost
immediately. Perhaps the dolly method should be enhanced to incorporate the change in distance into
the clipping range?

Chris
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|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) 
|> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:29 PM
|> To: vtkusers (E-mail)
|> Subject: clipping range problems in recent nightly release
|> 
|> 
|> Has anyone noticed that the camera's cliping range has been 
|> drastically tightened recently? This can
|> be seen in the bottle.tcl example script. Pre-August 
|> versions of vtkRenderer, the clipping range set
|> for the camera "vtkTemp2" was 1.14569 to 57.2846. Post-July, 
|> the clipping range has become 8.1782 to
|> 14.7356. 
|> 
|> Chris
|> ________________________________________
|> Christopher R. Volpe
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|> Computer Graphics & Systems Program
|> GE Corporate Research & Development
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