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2 Sep 2024 02:13:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Heightfield smooth problem  
From: Christophe Bouffartigue
Date: 15 Jun 2000 06:42:09
Message: <3948B945.FC87D97A@nanterre.marelli.fr>
Warp wrote:
> 
> Vahur Krouverk <vah### [at] aetecee> wrote:
> : By
> : default smooth height-fields were double illuminated, but from version
> : 0.5 it is changed to not double illuminate. Seems like smoothing is
> : changing some surface normals such way, that in intersection point it
> : appears to be faced backward
> 
>   Ah, so there really was a good reason for the double-illumination after all.
>   It sounds more a kludge than a real fix, though...

... and it doesn't work if you want to apply a slope pattern on the
hf...

Bouf.


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