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Re: primer/tutorial on BFC?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 3 Jan 2004 07:47:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Andrew Westrate wrote:
> > > For the two-dimensional primitives (disc, ndis, ring, chrd) you can do the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > Say you have a disc in the x-z plane, like:
> > > 1 16 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 4-4disc.dat
> > >
> > > If this has the wrong BFC winding, you can just flip (mirror) the primitive by
> > > changing the matrix to:
> > > 1 16 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10 4-4disc.dat
> > >
> > > Any reason why that isn't valid? (I do it all the time)
> >
> > That shouldn't work -- the rendering program should detect that you've mirrored the
> > object, and adjust accordingly. Unfortunately, I see that it does 'work' in L3Lab.
> > LDView is crashing my system right now, so I couldn't check it.
> >
> > What you should do is flip the 2D object. Inverting both X and Y is the same as
> > rotating 180 degrees around the Z axis:
> > 1 16 0 0 0 -10 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10 4-4disc.dat
> >
> > Steve
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> If this is the case then we need to go back through all the BFC'd parts and find
> instances of this type of matrix. Since L3Lab allows inverting the sign of the
> Y component and it's currently the only program to easily check for correct
> winding, I assumed (without reading the specification) that doing so was legal.
> This is also the way I've been teaching others.
I do this all the time, too.
Just a minus sign in stead of 'BFC INVERTNEXT' each time can save some
diskspace, which I've been told is something to go for, too.
Niels
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