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In <1993Jan26.141942.1@orion.yorku.ca> as000232@orion.yorku.ca writes:

>        The problem that I am having, however, is that it is difficult to 
> deal with the camera position.  What I'm really trying to find, is some 
> software that resembles a flight simulator, but will let you fly past 
> your own 3D creations/landscapes and monitors and keeps track of your 
> path.  I've seen such programs as CAMPATH and AEWIRE, but neither were 
> of any help.
> 
>        If anyone has any ideas/pointers to software or source of one 
> kind or another that might help me out a bit, I would appreciate if 
> someone could pass it along.  As well, since I'm doing this for fun and 
> not for profit, I'd like to try to keep cost to an absolute minimum.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Graham TerMarsch
> as000232@Orion.YorkU.CA

Graham,
  One of the best utilties I've found for POV it called SP - Dave's Spline-
Path Generator.  You can find this on the You Can Call Me Ray BBS.  Basically,
you make a data file of a number of points and some other information, and
SP will calculate position and rotations for your camera.  You can do
acceleration/deceleration, etc... with it as well.  It's downfall (at least
as of version 0.3) is that it only does one frame at a time (you tell it
which of the N frames to compute).  It's realtively easy to make a batch
file for this though.
 
Let us know if you find anything else.
 
-Jason Barile
 barilejb@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu