Mark Baranowski (baranowski++at++marklynn.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:24:55 GMT
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:12:26 +0000 (GMT), Neil Williams
<neil.f.williams++at++gecm.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>I've got two problems with a modified version of the Spotlight example source
>in the 'Creating Visuals Effects ' section of the 2.1 manual.
>
>Firstly - Instead of getting one spotlight texture on my terrain I get hundreds
>of them replicated all over the place. I can change their size by tweaking the
>frustum FoV or the LSourcePos, but I can't get a single spotlight source. Any
>ideas?
Make sure the repeat function on your projected texture is PFTEX_CLAMP
(see man page for pfTexRepeat).
>Secondly - So far I've been using an O2 for projected texture spotlights. I've
>tried the same code on our MXI graphics machine and the projected texture does
>not appear. Why not?
Are you multiprocessing on the Octane? We couldn't get projected
textures working when multiprocessing with Performer 2.1 on our iR. If
you are multiprocessing then try running your app in single process
mode to see if it works.
>Thanks in advance.
Your welcome.
Mark.
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