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From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel)
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Subject: Re: Normals
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 21:49:42 GMT
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On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:25:25 +0100, Richard Haskey
<rhaskey@innotts.co.uk> did quoth at me:

>	a) Manually rotate the original normals using a derived rotation matrix 
>	   and store them in an array.

A pain, but I think it is necessary.

>	b) Get the rotated vertex normals (as created by GsSortObject4) out of
>the packet data area.

Unlikely since I expect the packet data area contains primitive
information only.

It is a pain though, so if any nice Sony guys (Colin?) can tell us
anywhere to find any of the rotated point information it would be oh
so helpful.


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