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  Re: Bug in "smooth" height_fields???  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 12 Mar 2001 07:19:21
Message: <3AACBE21.3A9A47D5@videotron.ca>
Vahur Krouverk wrote:
> 
> "Bob H." wrote:
> >
> > It's a known problem, yes.  I'm not knowledgeable as to why it is though.
> > Something about surface normals inverting and double illuminate maybe?
> > Oh yeah, there was a double illuminate "bug fix" done in version 0.5, I
> > looked it up but that's all I know.
> 
> There was discussion about this, see "Heightfield smooth problem" in
> this group, started 2000-06-13.
> To avoid this, add double_illumination keyword to height field.

It didn't solve it in my case.  I ended up doubling the size of the
.png, moving my hf further away and using distance fog so it doesn't
look jaggy.  

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