--- ray/src/util/trad.hlp 1995/10/05 13:03:04 2.16 +++ ray/src/util/trad.hlp 1998/10/20 11:52:15 2.18 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - $Id: trad.hlp,v 2.16 1995/10/05 13:03:04 greg Exp $ + $Id: trad.hlp,v 2.18 1998/10/20 11:52:15 gwlarson Exp $ This help file is associated with the trad interface to the Radiance rad(1) program. Trad consists of trad.wsh and one do_*.tcl file for @@ -398,11 +398,26 @@ long as the overall size of the given box is close to size of the space. The Zone entry windows may be manipulated in the following ways. -Control-U clears the current window. Control-V pastes the contents of the current selection at the insertion point. Return moves the focus to the next window in the chain. +The "Auto" button may be used to set these values based on the bounding +box of one or more Radiance scene files. + +.Zone.Auto + +Use this button to automatically determine the bounding box for this +zone, based on the output of the "getbbox" command run on one or +more Radiance scene files. +The appropriate scene files are entered via a file +selection dialogue box, which comes up after the button is pressed. + +The reason for selecting specific files rather than running getbbox +on the entire scene is that a zone usually does not include large +external objects, which may be present in the complete scene +description. + .Zone.Detail The "Detail" setting indicates the relative level @@ -682,9 +697,6 @@ The "Clear" button simply clears the "Name" and "Optio for the convenience of entering a new view. It has no effect on the rad input variables. -Note that Control-U will always clear an entry box whose cursor is -active. - .Views.Default The "Set Default" button may be used to make the selected view the @@ -710,6 +722,15 @@ X axis (-X), the negative Y axis (-Y), or the negative This setting may always be overridden by the "-vu xd yd zd" option, and will be altered for a particular view if it happens to be parallel to the view direction. + +.Views.Eyesep + +The eye separation is used for generating stereo views of +the scene. +It is the measured distance between a viewer's pupils in world +coordinate units. +It is not used directly by rad, but should be set for other programs +that need it, such as rholo and glrad. .Views.Picture