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Subject: Help with Camera Positions....
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:19:42 GMT

       Hi there.  I'd like to ask for some pointers to some software out
there, if it exists.  To explain the situation I'm in, I've currently
got two machines, a 386-33, and a VAX 4000-300.  At the moment, I'm
trying to do some simple animations, for fun.  I'm doing all of the
drawing of objects and scenes in AutoCAD 10, and then converting them
into POV format for the Persistance of Vision Ray-Tracer.  I've got the
raytracer running on the VAX unit at the office to do all of the tracing
of the frames.

       The problem that I am having, however, is that it is difficult to
deal with the camera position.  What I'm really trying to find, is some
software that resembles a flight simulator, but will let you fly past
your own 3D creations/landscapes and monitors and keeps track of your
path.  I've seen such programs as CAMPATH and AEWIRE, but neither were
of any help.

       If anyone has any ideas/pointers to software or source of one
kind or another that might help me out a bit, I would appreciate if
someone could pass it along.  As well, since I'm doing this for fun and
not for profit, I'd like to try to keep cost to an absolute minimum.

Suggestions?

Graham TerMarsch
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