Re: polygon question

Adrian Scott ([email protected])
Fri, 17 Nov 95 12:58:43 PST

>
> > > >And while I have the floor, is it possible to specify rotation with
> > > >degrees instead of radians?
> >
> > I like this idea. How about if the letter "D" or "d" follows the
> > floating point value, it should be interpreted as degrees. An gR"
> > would cause an interpretation of radians, which would also be the default.
> >
>
> Rather than gumming up the existing standard, how about implementing a
> preprocessor?
>
> The preprocessor could convert quite a number of useful alternate
> representations, such as a coordinate system of opposite handedness, radians,

one of the (few?) useful features of Virtual World Factory
is that it lets you type in angles in degrees (default) or
radians and does the conversion for you in Rotation nodes.

you can also see the current version of your world in vrml
at the bottom of the scrsen at any time.

www.virtpark.com/theme/factinfo.html

i gotta get around to doing the vrml-based version one'a' these
days, though i've bsen doing work on a totally different style
of authoring tool that is much easier to use, so i'm giving
that a higher priority (+ improvements to Serch and Proteinman
-- Proteinman does the Thanksgiving thing coming soon).

cheers,
Adrian

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