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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
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Subject: Re: I can't make 3D objects!
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 22:27:03 -0500
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Manny Najera wrote:
> 
> Aside from that problem, I find that dxf2rsd makes everything into a
> bunch of triangles, nomatter what the original looked like.  I spend
> hours making a simple 16 polygon object, then dxf2rsd makes a fool out
> of me by turning it into a 64 polygon triangle structure, which is
> extremely annoying to texture!  Is there some feature that I don't know
> about?  I've seen the wireframe for the Tekken charachters, so I know
> that four sided polygons are possible.

I think you can use the "-quad" option on "dxf2rsd.exe" to tell it
not to break your quads into triangles.

EdF