From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro and 3d stuff
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 19:44:08 +0100
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Peter Steele writes:
>I an a little bit new to allegro and was wondering if someome could tell
>me how I can move the coordinate system, eg move the origin to the
>centre of the screen.

Just add an offset onto your coordinates before you draw the shapes...

>I am asking this because when I tried a simple rotating cube problem 
>but trying to keep the cube on the screen was a problem when i used the 
>3-d to 2-d function (can't remember the exact name).

If you mean the persp_project() routine, you should use
set_projection_viewport() to specify which part of the 2d screen should
be used for projecting the 3d world coordinates.


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