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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.3d_studio
Subject: problems with cylinders
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:29:48 -0500
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I've been doing more work with creating models in 3D Studio R4 and
converting them into .RSD and then to .TMD files and putting them
up on the Yaroze screen.

I've found that anytime I create a boolean object with at least one
of the base objects being a cylinder, the resulting image is messed
up somewhere during all the conversion/display code.

For example, try to make a "P" like object:  From a cylinder and a box,
create a "union" boolean object, save as DXF, convert to .RSD using
dxf2rsd.exe, and then use rsdv.bat to view the object, and you will
see tons of extra triagles all over, and many triangles that are
apparently missing, and many triangles with thier normals reversed!

You'll be able to recognise the overall shape however.

Is anyone else aware of this?

Could it be the dxf2rsd.exe program?

This is really putting a damper on things for me:  Most of the models
I want to make have some kind of round/cylinder aspect to them.

Ed Federmeyer