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From: "Roland Boettcher" <roland@harlie.han.de>
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Subject: Re: How best to exploit this thing-a-ma-jig?!
Date: 11 Jan 1998 14:24:02 GMT
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> cannot effectively display polygons that are either large or close to
> the viewpoint (without the engine having to clip things manually which
> kills the performance).  I have tried a number of work-arounds, from the
> standard subdivision flags in the GsDOBJ2 structures, to level of

I think setting the subdivision flags is the way to go. You can look at my
demo to see how I dealt with the problem (by the way the source code is
free).

Roland