clipping range problems in recent nightly release

[Lisa S. Avila]

Hi Chris,

The interactors (Tcl and C++) have been modified to take into account the
clipping range - if you use the right mouse button to dolly in and out the
clipping range should automatically be adjusted for you. I don't think we
want to add this functionality in camera though - sometimes you want to be
able to dolly closer and keep your clipping range at a fixed distance from
the camera. 

Lisa

At 09:14 PM 9/3/99 -0400, Volpe, Christopher R (CRD) wrote:
>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
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