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From: Charlie <m93cec@ecs.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: On another note...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:43:24 +0000
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3D lines, and 3D sprites are, for some reason, not supported in the
Yaroze libs - not sure why, originally I think it was a bug, but no
fixes have been released as far as I am aware.

there are other ways of doing 3D lines, but not in TMDs, unless someone
knows different of course ...

cheers

Charlie

Tom wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried doing 3d lines using dynamic TMD creation? I follwed
> through the data structure in the 'fileformat.pdf' but the Playstation
> always locks up giving the error 'GPU code 40 not assigned' when I try
> and link the model. The pdf file states that the code for a 3d line if
> 0x40 but it seems to me that this is wrong (sticking my head out a bit
> there).
> 
> I've not had this kind of problem before when using dynamic TMD's, has
> anyone else done this before?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I want to display some tracer bullets from the
> mech and this is the only way I can think of doing it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Tom