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From: James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: LightWave 3D object file format?
Message-ID: <James_Hastings-Trew.3384@tptbbs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 00:49:02 GMT
Organization: TelePro Technologies
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In a message dated Sun 23 Jun 91 04:52, Acps1072@ryerson.ca (acps1072@ryers
wrote:

 A> I've heard somewhere that Lightwave accepts the standard Videoscape
 A> objects.  However, these VideoScape objects do not support texture
 A> mapping, bump mapping, road mapping :-> of any kind.

What happens is thaat each polygon gets mapped individually instead of each
being treated as part of a surface. This does not show up very badly except
in the volumetric textures - wood, marble, ripples, fractal noise, etc. The
marble, fractal noise and fractal bump maps show the least problem, and the
wood and ripples show the  moost.

I have tried importing these kinds of objects into the lightwave modeller,
and using the merge points function, but this does not help.