Ken wrote:
> Major bugs such as what ?

Rune wrote:
> Such as the normal bugs.

Ken wrote:
> I never really accepted that those were bugs. I think of the
> changes that Nathan made as design changes since they completely
> broke backward compatibility with past versions of the program.

I consider it bugs indeed. I think I was one of the first to complain about
the strange way the normals worked. When scaling objects, the normals
changed. For example, in the scenes where I used Blob_Man I had to scale my
whole scene to fit Blob_Man rather than just scaling Blob_Man, because if I
scaled Blob_Man his skin and clothed looked all wrong. That's very annoying,
very unintuitive, and very inconsistent, and therefore I consider it a bug.
I don't think the broken backward compatibility makes it less a bug - on the
contrary. Since the bug affected practically all scenes using normals I
consider it a *major* bug. The bug was so big that the bug-fix had to brake
backward compatibility.

Rune
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