Re: www-vrml-digest V1 #13

Rycharde Hawkes ([email protected])
Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:23:02 +0100 (BST)

Vassilis Bourdakis wrote:
> Rycharde Hawkes wrote:
> >
> >Bernie mentioned that 3D studio uses triangles only.
>
> Actually 3DS does create multi vertex polygons... simply the way it sets the
> normals is a bit dodgy... Thats all. It does _NOT_ work on simple individual
> triangles!
> Apart from that it works fine.
> The problem is with many of the ACAD models that are indeed simple triangles.
> In order to create multivertex polygons in ACAD,
> you need to do some (rather a lot) programming yourself...

I've been working with v1.5 of the file format (!). Obviously things
have changed since then because all that gives me is tristrips.

Rych

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