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Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 18:19:53 GMT
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:04:27 GMT, Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Steve Bliss wrote:
> 
> > Right.  New programs may handle transparency either way, so the extensions
> > to the description language shouldn't assume which way to go.  Plus, the
> > description language usually doesn't know the color/transparency, so we
> > can't assign the CLIPPING setting in the language anyway.
> 
>  Not exactly!
>  If the color has any transparency, force CLIPPING OFF, irrespective of
>  what the file TAGS inform.

Right.  But that happens at rendering time, not in the description
language.

>  (SIDE NOTE)
>  when using the tag
> 
> 0 CLIPPING ON
> 
>  you are not informing the program that it MUST do clipping, but instead
>  you are saying that it SHOULD clip if he know how. That's one of the
>  reasons why this is compatible with LDRAW (it's a comment!).

I knew that. ;)

> > >  To use this features, in a similar way, will simplify the making (or
> > >  appending) of a program written in OpenGL, and probably D3D (since they
> > >  use something similar).
> > 
> > True, but the translation is fairly straightforward.
> 
>  Yes it is, but think of me like a polition. ;)
>  Enlighten only what is relevant to your cause!

LOL

Steve



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(...) touche'! (...) Not exactly! If the color has any transparency, force CLIPPING OFF, irrespective of what the file TAGS inform. (SIDE NOTE) when using the tag 0 CLIPPING ON you are not informing the program that it MUST do clipping, but instead (...) (27 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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