clipping plane translation

ok, im suffering all sorts of pain here…

this is my situation…

lets say i have a window (read frame) that doesnt quite center at (0,0)…but rather it centers at (0,.195)…so…everything i render i translate up .195 so it is at the center of this window.

this is all standard stuff and it works great…right?

well…what i want to do is have a clipping plane centered at (0,.195)…but everytime i translate my clipping plane centered at (0,0) up .195…nothing happens…i can translate the plane along the z axis all day long with expected results…but not along the y axis…

is there a reason for this? is there a solution?

thanks
andrew

Hello,

cliping planes are infinite and you won’t see any change of you translate through a vector thats co-planar to your clipping plane.

For example; if you have the plane equation

z=0;

(ie. any point <x,y,0> satisfies this equation), then the commands

glTranslatef(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);

or

glTranslatef(0.0, 1.0, 0.0);

(or some permutation thereof) won’t have any effect on the orientation of the plane, right?

but this will:

glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, 1.0);

because now you’re modifying a variable affected by the plane’s condition.

does this make sense?

cheers,
John

yeah…that makes sense…unfortunately

guess ill just have to make the thing i want clipped at the origin…
quite unfortunate (because i need it to be able to translate along z)

thanks for the help
andrew