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  Re: A3dsViewer released: converts 3ds files to the pov-ray format  
From: Slider
Date: 18 Feb 2007 10:05:01
Message: <web.45d86adacb67175caec0a2210@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Trevor G Quayle <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > 2) Does it do smoothing?
>
>   Just curious, but why would mesh smoothing be a task for a format
> converter? Shouldn't it be the task of the original modeller which
> created the mesh?
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

A3dsViewer does smoothing only if 3ds file faces have smooth flag on.
I can provide possibility to "force" smoothing or disable smoothing
if somebody need this.

Regards,
Tomas


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