smooth globe clarification

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Julie Cardosi (cardosi++at++kirk.motown.lmco.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:55:19 -0400

Let me clarify my previous message:

> I have what's probably a fairly simple problem.
>
> I'm rendering a globe in a Performer application and it looks faceted
> (like Epcot at Disney). If I view the same globe using perfly, it looks
> smooth (as it should). Does anyone know what I'm missing??

This globe was generated with MultiGen and Gouraud shadding is being applied
when rendering with Performer. The problem is that the normals for the
triangles (of the globe) are being used instead of the normals for the vertices
of the triangles. Any ideas??

Thanks,

Julie

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