On 3/29/20 12:05 PM, William F Pokorny wrote:
> On 3/29/20 11:44 AM, William F Pokorny wrote:
>> On 3/25/20 8:05 AM, William F Pokorny wrote:
>> ...
> 
> 
  Yep, my head never shuts off on this stuff - a problem when it comes 
to getting anything in particular done. I wondered this morning about 
no_bump_scale and how it gets handled with normals...

The first paragraph of section 3.6.1.2.4 Scaling normals ends with the 
sentence: "Think of this like the way no_shadow gets passed on to 
objects contained in a CSG." which we know not to be generally true 
today in v3.7 or v3.8 - and I expect never completely true.

However, seeing that comment got me thinking about Christoph's statement 
about hollow treatments changing v36 to v37 with respect to which shape 
in a CSG was used to propagate hollow statements to a CSG result 
changing from the first to last - or maybe visa versa.

"Maybe," we could support some limited universal propagation of 
no_shadow et al through csg by always propagating always from ONLY the 
first object in the csg block? Is this what the pre - v37 coders intended?

In any case. If someone gets the time to dig. Maybe something limited 
like a first shape only csg propagation could be supported in v38 which 
would be of some help.

Bill P.

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