[yt-users] volume rendering angle

[Matthew Turk]

Hi G.S.,

> Specifically, when I try to render an image using an image plane
> perpendicular to the vector L=[1,1,1] and center [0.5,0.5,0.5] everything
> looks fine, but if I want a head on view from the x axis of the y,z plane
> and setting L=[1,0,0] the image is just gibberish.
>
> Any thoughts on what I might have done wrong?  I was just using the sample
> script from the cookbook and changing L only, with both the "Simple Volume
> Rendering" and "Camera Interface"

You didn't do anything wrong.  There was a bug that was causing this a
while back, but it should be fixed in the current trunk.  "yt instinfo
-u" should update things for you.  Let me know if that doesn't work!

-Matt