Re: smooth globe clarification

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:19:17 -0700

On Oct 13, 9:55am, Julie Cardosi wrote:
> 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??

when you use the calc. shading tool in multigen you must specify the "lighting
mode" radio box. the loader will only use the model's normals if the lighting
mode is "Dynamic" or "Dynamic Gouraud".

Regards.

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