Cousin Ricky <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> But the change can still cause legacy problems.  A scene file can produce
> significantly different results if the pattern is used on a macro scale: for
> example, creating a landscape with a height field or an isosurface.  John
> Guthkelch's Code Rot is noticeably different.  One may have found just the right
> artistic composition in 3.6 by translating the crackle just so.  Such a
> composition will be ruined in 3.7, and there doesn't appear to be a way to
> update the scene file to obtain the previous result.

  Backwards compatibility cannot always be maintained.

  If the scene absolutely must be upgraded to 3.7, then the solution is
to render the heightfield elevations as an image in 3.6 and then create
the heightfield from that image in 3.7.

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                                                          - Warp

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