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From: James Russell <jruss@ibm.net>
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Subject: Are normals required for flat shaded polygons?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:17:00 +1300
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Hi

I'm building an RSD file from scratch since my objects are simple and my
object creation utils keep doing crap triangulation on them.

I want most of the polygons to be flat shaded (no gouraud). Do I have to
specify real normals for these polygons, even though they don't have
lightsource calculations?

Or are they required for the 3 global parallel lights?

Ta

J