Re: meshwork texture smoothing into trimesh?

[Joseph J. S. <jo...@st...>]

At 4:17 PM -0600 6/17/04, Keith Wiley wrote:

>Meshwork has an option for smoothing a texture.

No, actually, it's an option for smoothing the shading of the 
geometry.  From section 3.2.5 of the manual,

"Smooth: when Smooth is checked, Meshwork will output vertex normals 
to file formats which support them. These are used for Gouraud 
shading, which gives your model a smoother, less faceted look. If 
unchecked, vertex normals will not be generated for this material."

>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.

Whet sort of texture mapping are you using?  See the comments just a 
bit further in section 3.2.5 about "Texture Map" where it talks about 
splitting neighbors across a seam when using spherical or cylindrical 
mapping.  Perhaps that's the bit your code isn't taking into account.

HTH,
- Joe

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