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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2004 - 14:59:21 CST

Matt,
  How many walls does your CAVE have? Is it actually a CAVE, or is
it an Immersadesk or a large wall type display? What does your .caverc
file contain? The default projection used in VMD works well for the
10'x10'x10' CAVE at NCSA, but you may have to use a custom .caverc file
if you're using an Immersadesk or some other viewing configuration that
isn't a cube. (or if it has a vastly different coordinate system from the
NCSA CAVE...)

Nothing has been change /wrt the CAVE code in VMD 1.8.2, so there'd be
no reason to upgrade unless you want other non-CAVE-related bug fixes
and features.

  John

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Matt Elder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Environment:
> I'm running VMD 1.8.1 in a CAVE environment, on an SGI machine running
> IRIX. The binary is compiled with CAVELib.
>
> The perspective ratio is wrong; images are squashed in the y-axis.
> Changing the -height parameter at runtime has no effect.
>
> Other programs in the CAVE don't seem to have any problem with the
> perspective. Does anyone have any idea what the source of this problem
> is, or if it's fixed in 1.8.2? (I'm hesitant to upgrade, for various
> reasons.)
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 

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