Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Primitive Naming Standard Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:31:47 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <36234833.5957@manc.u-net.com> References: <36228F2E.FF6F9041@datasys.net> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Darco wrote: > Is there a standard naming convention? If not, should we make one? A damn good question I reckon. Some form of standardisation, at least between us Yarozers can only be a good thing. What annoys me is the way people deliberately alter names of variables and functions to avoid accusations of plagiarism, when all they're doing is confusing themselves and everyone else who reads their code. It's program structure and function content that is the copyright of the author, not the object labels, so forming a convention for TMD primitives should help our Yaroze cause no end, IMHO. > G3 - Gouraud Shaded Tri w/ Flat Pigment > N3 - Non-Shaded Tri w/ Flat Pigment > G4 - Gouraud Shaded Quad w/ Flat Pigment > N4GT - Non-Shaded Quad w/ Gradient & Texture I am yet to get into dynamic TMDs so when I do I will go with whatever we all agree on is an ideal standard. So forgive me for asking a stupid question, but how can a *gouraud shaded* triangle (G3 above) also have flat pigment? Isn't that a contradiction? Or in N4GT, how can a *non-shaded* quad have a gradient, when non-shaded means no normals will be calculated? And I thought gradient meant the *same thing* as gouraud shaded? I'll put money on this being a stupid question and I'm having some form of mental block, but I /thought/ I understood all this! Cheers, Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj ----------------------------------------- "I am entering some times in the Gravitation Championship." - you! ;-)