On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:28:11 -0400, "Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom>
wrote:

>How about this:
>
>A current limitation (which I plan to keep) is that the face_indices section
>must be specified before normal_indices or uv_indices.  Now, what you could
>do is specify all of the smooth triangles first in the face_indices section,
>and then all of the flat triangles.  Then, in the normal_indices section,
>you just only specify enough sets of normal indices to put normals on the
>smooth triangles.  Any faces remaining that don't have normals just get
>turned into smooth triangles.  It would be easy to code, fast to parse, and
>would keep file sizes small.
>
Works for me (and it's be REAL handy not to have to create seperate
meshes for smooth and flat triangles).


Cheers,

Cliff Bowman
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