meshwork texture smoothing into trimesh?

[Keith W. <kw...@cs...>]

Meshwork has an option for smoothing a texture.  It doesn't smooth the
vertices, but has sort of a blurring effect on the texture as it wraps
over edges and around corners.  I assume this is a Quesa/QD3D thing,
otherwise what would it be doing.

What exactly is it doing?  I can't find the string "smooth" in any quesa
header file.  I was hoping it might be some kind of texture attribute.  I
ask because I have been taking 3DMF files and then modifying their
trimeshes in code to change their shape and create multiple subobjects as
part of a single larger trimesh, for the purpose of speeding rendering
over having many small objects.

I was able to get it to work perfectly, textures are properly mapped to
each individual subobject, but if I open a 3DMF with a smoothed texture
and start fanangling the vertices, triangles, and UV values, the model
renders with the right geometry but a completely messed up texture.

Anybody have a clue on this one?

Thanks.

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Keith Wiley                                kw...@cs...
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