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From: "Roland Boettcher" <roland@harlie.han.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with quadliteral Poly's
Date: 15 Feb 1999 19:32:41 GMT
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If you want quads, all four verticies must lie on the same plane.
If they don't, dxf2rsd will leave them as triangles. If you can't
put a quad texture on your poly in rsdtool, you probably have
to go back to your modeller and fix your model.

Roland

Olaf Grau <OlafGrau@aol.com> schrieb im Beitrag <36C761E4.3A88961A@aol.com>...
> Hi There !
> I try to generate an TMD Object with quadliteral Polys
> and try to texture it with an TIM !
> 
> I use 3DstudioMAX for create an 3D Model
> then I export the Mesh as an AutoCat File
> (In this State the Model consists of triangulated Poly)
> 
> The Next Step is to convert the Autocat file into an Rsd
> Object with DXF2RSD Tool (Windows edition) with the
> Option "Quadliterals"
> 
> At the first view of the converted Object in RSDTool
> everthing looks all right (quad. poly, and the TIMs have
> an 4 point Mapping)
> But by pasting an Tim onto an Poly, only the "half"
> of the selected Poly wa wrapped with the Tim (half Quad poly ->
> triangulated
> Poly !!!), with other words: how can i realize an object with
> quadliteral
> Polys and correct displayed Textures ?
> 
> What went wrong ????? Is it a Problem of 3DStudioMAX
> or an wrong setting in one of the conversion Tools ???
> But: belive me i tried out really a lot!!!!!
> 
> I hope someone will speak to me (out of the dark....or from
> anywhere....)
> 
> with regards
>  Olaf
> 
>