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Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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