On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:32:07 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
> OK, well... In level one, where you meet Barney and he walks past the  
> light fitting, why does the shading follow the polygons in the character  
> mesh?

I dunno. Crappy graphics card/driver? Crappy settings? Optical illusion?  
You imagining things because per-pixel lighting is "clearly impossible"?


>>  Do you seriously believe that the modeling software does not help you  
>> place things on a circle?
>
> Maybe it'll draw a perfect circle or even an ellipse for you. But this  
> is neither. It's more of a "stadium" shape, following the contours of  
> the human hips.

So tweak it a little. Particularly easy if you use the human model as a  
reference.


> Sure. Drawing hundreds of polygons with perfectly parallel surfaces is  
> drop-dead easy.
>
> If they're aligned to the coordinate axies. :-P

Clearly you have not actually used any half-decent modeling software.


> I mean "impossible" in the same sense that it's "impossible" to throw a  
> dart at dart board and hit a particular atom with the point.

Yet you keep using it when referring to things that are almost trivially  
easy.



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