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From: "Steve Dunn" <steve@backroom.tm>
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Subject: Re: DXF RSDV RSDTOOL 3DSMAX
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 16:29:15 +0100
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See the topic below this one...
'3D Object Size'
This might help

Steve

>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
>
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