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From: Karsten Wutzke <kwutzke@usa.net>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: DXF RSDV RSDTOOL 3DSMAX
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 16:32:15 +0200
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mmmh...

I've just created a first 3D model for use in a game...
I created a car with 3D Studio MAX and exported it
to DXF which was then converted to RSD. When I
loaded the RSD into RSDTOOL all polygons (triangles)
pointed into the opposite direction in which they were
supposed to. It looked awful when I used that model with
RSDV, but I blamed my model for its bad looks.
When I reentered MAX and flipped ALL face normals
of my model, exported to DXF and RSD, and loaded it
into RSDTOOL it looked correct. However, RSDV
didn't like it and still displayed it incorrectly. Why?

Which program shall I believe in then? RSDTOOL (which
displays it correctly) or RSDV (which displays it incorrectly)?

Why do I have to create a "wrong" 3D model (a model in
which the polys originally point in the wrong direction) to make it look

correct in RSDTOOL?
Or: Is the 3DSMAX - DXF Exporter crap?
Or: Did I do anything wrong here?

For my part, I won't be doing any (real) programming before I
can't be sure that the models I create are somewhat bulletproof
in sense of correct data...

thx in adv,

Karsten