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From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel)
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Subject: Translucent Faces & New project
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:11:50 GMT
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I'm sure someone asked about Translucent Faces some time ago.

For non-textured faces use bits 28-29 of GsDOBJ2. They aren't
documented but they do exist. And don't do what I did which is not to
set the mode2 parameter within TMD structures. I remembered reading it
wasn't needed. Well it is! Also remember you'll need to OR in ABE to
your TMD type to make it work.

I just got a couple of weeks free so this week I started a little
project. Something a little different, something Yaroze people will
see. Now we have freetime I also have Mark sitting down FINALLY coding
that rather nifty tool. Its complexity has got rather out of hand so
no deadline on it but we will be looking to provide it for Yaroze
owners one way or another. It will make life much much easier for
dealing with putting game levels together as well as the usual 3ds
conversion stuff. It already exports TMD and all that malarchy.

I'm actually hoping some shit-hot artists and game designers here will
see and add to my basic ideas and I could persuade someone to pick it
up as commercial, but the chances of that are about 0.0000001%. Still,
got to try these things :) Not since xtreme racing have I done my own
game and it feels so good to be doing something good again.

Look out for FiskBall...coming to a Yaroze site near you.

This is all work dependant (as usual) but hopefully things will keep
calm for a few days. I'm not being silly enough to give a timescale on
this one either! Especially as its only had a couple of days work on
it so far.


Regards, 

Alex Amsel

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