strange things

[micheus]

WildTurkey, welcome to Wings3d community.

(04-03-2013 06:15 AM)WildTurkey Wrote:  The reason it hurts so bad is because;
"IT IS COMPLETELY AGAINST EVERY OTHER KNOWN COORDINATE SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSE"

That is for those that don't believe in mult-universe.
The orientation is the same used by OpenGL (3D Graphic with OpenGL). I think that this make the things easy to the software side.

I found this: Y-up versus Z-up

• z-up typically used by designers
• y-up typically used by animators
• orientaion by profession supposedly derives from past work habits
• often handled differently when moving from application to application

Aso, it doesn't cause any pain when someone is new to 3D world, since there is only a new axis added to those two already well known: