Problem 870 - Deprecated orbit command
Summary: Deprecated orbit command
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Geant4
Classification: Unclassified
Component: visualization (show other problems)
Version: other
Hardware: All Other
: P5 trivial
Assignee: perl
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Reported: 2006-05-26 14:04 CEST by davidl
Modified: 2006-06-10 22:51 CEST (History)
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Description davidl 2006-05-26 14:04:56 CEST 
About 5 years ago I started looking at Geant4 and there was a nice visualization command called "orbit" (I
forget the exact path, but it was under /vis). From what I remember, this command allowed one to specify
an axis of rotation, a rotation step size and a number of steps. The OGLIX driver was then able to draw the
frames fast enough that you essentially got an animated, 3D, rotating view of your detector. Almost
immediately after falling in love with this command, it was marked "deprecated" and I think even moved
into a /deprecated command directory.

What ever happened to this command and is there an equivalent way to do this today?

thanks
Comment 1 perl 2006-06-04 23:49:59 CEST 
Not really a bug, but rather a complaint that a particular feature was removed a long time ago.
We will look into restoring the feature.