POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Normals in Pov : Re: Normals in Pov Server Time
5 Sep 2024 20:17:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Normals in Pov  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 18 Jul 2000 22:22:40
Message: <chrishuff-0591C5.21231018072000@news.povray.org>
In article <3974E13A.49899E8C@erols.com>, John VanSickle 
<van### [at] erolscom> wrote:

> This is what I tested; the normal does indeed need to be flipped to
> achieve this effect.  I'm fairly sure this was done in a recent
> version of POV-Ray; I distinctly remember having to reverse the order
> of some defined points in order to get the normals pointed the right
> way.

I think the bug fix was added in 3.1b along with some double-illuminate 
stuff:
"Fixed average normal bug and other normal flipping problems"

(revision.doc)

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