How can I calculate a view that displays my entire model?

OpenGL OpenGL: Advanced Coding
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Hello,
in the faq section i found an article describing how to calculate a view that displays the whole scene by using an orthographic projection. I must calculate this view for a perspective projection. How can i calculate the correct distance between the camera (eye-point) and the scene-centerpoint (reference-point), so that applying gluLookAt with the desired parameters leads in a view to the complete scene?

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I THINK it goes something like this:

fov = cameras field-of-view in radians
r = radius of model
c = r / sin (fov/2)
dist = sqrt (r * r + c* c)

I havent had time to check it (just did some scribbling on the back of an envelope), but try it out

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Hello Nicholas,

thank you very much, it works fine :wink:

Best regards

Michael Schuster

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Originally posted by tabor25:
[b]Hello Nicholas,

thank you very much, it works fine :wink:

Best regards

Michael Schuster[/b]

Glad to hear it.

FYI: The method used is to get the cross product of the up & forward vectors. The cross of two vectors is a vector that is perpendicular to the plane defined by the other two vectors. If you’re intrested, I can mail you an LGPL 3D math library in C++ I took it from the CrystalSpace engine. Nothing special, but works nicely. If you want it, mail me at nicholasfrancis@mac.com