Re: Announcing Cartoon Renderer

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

At 10:10 AM -0700 7/8/05, James W. Walker wrote:

>>I've noted that sometimes the Cartoon renderer misses some polys, 
>>but I cant see a pattern, you can see it loading in Geom Test 
>>"PodRacer.3dmf"
>>this is a bug or a feature?
>>it happens with some of my models too...
>
>In the PodRacer, one of the TriMeshes lacks vertex normals.  The 
>cartoon shading algorithm needs vertex normals.

Shouldn't it calculate them if it needs them?  Vertex normals are not 
required for a TriMesh to be well-formed, IIRC... in fact, under 
QD3D, refraining from supplying vertex normals was a good way to get 
a "faceted" look (with each polygon given a uniform shade, rather 
than blending).

Best,
- Joe

P.S. This cartoon renderer sounds cool -- I can't wait to try it!

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