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From: "Charles Nicholson" <chnicholson@vassar.edu>
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Subject: I'm confused
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:55:03 -0500
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I'm writing a bsp compiler that takes a 3dsMax .ASE file and outputs a
vertex database, split polygons, sectors, convex subsectors etc... for a
true 3d engine and i was wondering this:

The .TMD normal format is 1:3:12, with 4096 being one.  .ASE files export
"normal" :) normals (ie, 1.3583, etc..).  Is it an accurate conversion
simply to multiply this number by 4096 or will that completely screw up the
fractional part of the normal?

If it does screw everything up, did anyone write a conversion routine?

thanks in advance,
-charles