Re: Why are .iv files so smooth?

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Nuno Godinho (mgo++at++minerva.inesc.pt)
Sun, 31 Mar 1996 03:38:11 +0200

> > When I load teapot.dxf into perfly I can see each polygon.
 Using DxftoIv to convert it to Inventor format I find that when loading
the new teapot.iv into perfly I get a completely different result: The
surface is smoothed instead of faceted.

> Could it be because, in the first case the teapot was flat shaded &
> in the second case it was Gouraud ('smooth') shaded?

Hi.

I tried to call pfShadeModel() with Gouraud option and everything
remained the same! Why is this?

thanks
        Nuno

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