Here is my problem:

Each of the sails is made from a single patch. the texture is a simple plain
white pigment. So why are parts of some sails missing? I have not changed
anything in the model at all. I did place the ship in Gilles Tran's
MakeCloud2 Sea scene to test his water formula ( Sea and Sky Sphere only)&
that is when the problem appeared. Now, even with all of his scene removed,
the missing parts of the sails remain missing. What could force only part of
a single patch disapear even after the scene elements were removed?

If I place the model in a totally new file, the sails return to normal. I am
completely stumped.

Tim



As a side note. I have been trying to model deep ocean waves with their
faceted surfaces for some time and his formula finally shed light on the
solution. Thank you Gilles.

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"Tim McMurdo" <tmc### [at] prodigynet> wrote in message
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   Hi Tim, it looks to me as though you've scaled them down too much.

  Try scaling 'everything' up.

   ~Steve~



> Tim

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Scaling! You nailed the problem. Increasing the size of the object
eliminates the problem.

Thanks Steve,

Tim


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> "Tim McMurdo" <tmc### [at] prodigynet> wrote in message
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>    Hi Tim, it looks to me as though you've scaled them down too much.
>
>   Try scaling 'everything' up.
>
>    ~Steve~
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> > Tim
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"Tim McMurdo" <tmc### [at] prodigynet> wrote in message
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> Scaling! You nailed the problem. Increasing the size of the object
> eliminates the problem.
>
> Thanks Steve,

   My pleasure Tim. Nice to help someone else out for a change. Looks
like a great ship, I can see a lot of work has gone into your project.
Keep us updated with it.  :)

   ~Steve~


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> Tim

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Tim McMurdo wrote:
> Here is my problem:
> 
> Each of the sails is made from a single patch. the texture is a simple plain
> white pigment. So why are parts of some sails missing? I have not changed
> anything in the model at all. I did place the ship in Gilles Tran's
> MakeCloud2 Sea scene to test his water formula ( Sea and Sky Sphere only)&
> that is when the problem appeared. Now, even with all of his scene removed,
> the missing parts of the sails remain missing. What could force only part of
> a single patch disapear even after the scene elements were removed?
> 
> If I place the model in a totally new file, the sails return to normal. I am
> completely stumped.

This is known bug with bicubic patches.
Use patched version, e.g. mlpov:
http://pov.monde.free.fr/mael/mlpov081eng.html

Gleb

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