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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:58:21 -0400, "Slime" <fak### [at] email address>
wrote:
>No direct answers here, but some suggestions...
>
>> 1) a normal vector for each vertex
>
>Perhaps you can just delete the entire normal_vectors and normal_indices
>blocks? If there are certain edges that you wanted to remain "hard", that
>can be set in wings itself. I'm not sure exactly what you don't like about
>having all of the normal vectors.
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I make "greebly"[1] angular linear shapes. The normals make
everything kind of, umm, plush and rounded ... sort of
melted. It looks really bad.
>> 2) a texture index for each triangle (this is kind of
>> annoying because I can't then apply a texture to
>> occurances of the mesh later on)
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>I've also found this feature annoying. To fix it, I select the face_indices
>block, and do a search-and-replace, replacing ">,0," with ">,". This removes
>all of the texture indices, except maybe the very last one.
>
This is a very good idea. Thank you!
>> What I would like to do is strip off the normal &
>> texture information and also convert the mesh2 object to a
>> regular mesh object.
>
>Why do you prefer mesh over mesh2? They both contain the same data, but mesh
>is (*much*) slower to parse.
>
The mesh object is much better for hand text editing.
It's hard for me to keep track of points while
editing a mesh2 object.
> - Slime
> [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
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[1] Example of "greebles": hull plating of the
Millenium Falcon
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