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From: alex@teeth.demon.co.uk (Alex Amsel)
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Subject: Re: DXF -> RSD Big problem!
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:33:12 GMT
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:50:39 +0100, Kev <kevtoast@geocities.com> did
quoth at me:


>Has anyone got a 3d object converter that will take either Imagine
>(.iob/.obj) or Lightwave (.lwo) or .3ds objects and output them as
>DXF with the normals intact???

There is an LW plug-in available, possibly on the Japanese site.

re: Normals

I have a similar problem with 'stock' objects. I'm currently doing
some tunnel code that maps an image onto a 'tunnel' 3d object. Looks
very nice too... However, I tried some other objects to check my
wrapping technique, and although it works, approx half the normals
were screwed on the actual objects. So I changed the internal TMD data
to use double sided polys (bit 1 in flag in primitive header).
However, there was no change.

Any ideas?


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