Re: Flat shading with MultiGen Loader

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:25:58 -0800

On Jan 26, 7:15pm, Jeremy Townsend wrote:
>What we need is a way to tell performer to keep the normals, and just
>not use them to calculate shading...

you mean ignore the normals wrt rendering?

hmmm ... you need to calculate shading as "Dynamic Gouraud" ... be sure and
check "Update Vertex Normals" too. this will give you an OpenFlight file where
the geometry has vertex normals and the loader will use them while building
geosets.

then in your performer application, find all the geostates of interest and
disable their lighting mode. also in your application, do not enable a global
override to enable/disable lighting.

Regards.

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