Andy Walker (andy++at++multigen.com)
Thu, 30 May 1996 12:09:12 -0700
I have forwarded this to support++at++multigen.com They should be able to awnser
your questions better than the Performer news group. Nothing against the
performer guru's! I'm sure most of them could awnser your questions.
Andy
On May 30, 9:22am, Svend Tang-Petersen wrote:
> Subject: MultiGen questions.
> Hi Performers.
>
> I have 3 question about MultiGen V14, which a fairly simple, but I'm
> new to MultiGen.
>
> a) I tried to set the environment variables for the default texture, dfad,
> and flt file locations in my .cshrc, but when importing a texture it
> still uses the '/usr/Multigen_flt/.....' path. A printenv from shell
> shows that the variables are indeed set, so what am I missing ?
>
> b) If I do a perfly using one of my flt files, it loades textures using
> their absolute path. Is this related to the above ?
> (I hate the idea of having demos that have this kind of dependency)
>
> c) I'm modelling a scene with 7x5 tiles and 3 lod's using 1,2 and 4 meter
> data. If I align my textures using imgview, then they match perfectly.
> When I look at my scene there's a border between the individual tiles,
> which looks very much like a dark pixel.
>
> When I load the texture into the texture palette I set u,v and u+v to
> TX_clamp. Then I apply the texture to the tile using 'Use select' and
> 'Use Corners'.
>
> I then pick 3 corners of the mesh using the middle mouse button to snap
> onto the vertices. On some tiles it looks like the texture matches
> perfectly
> with the 3 picked corners but not on the last. (My tiles are perfectly
> square).
>
> Any hints ?
>
> --
>
> Regards Svend
>
>
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