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- Okee dokee. Got two questions this time.
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- 1. I made a logo object with the Text option in modeller, then used the
- extrude function to make them 3D. When I render the objects, they have
- extremely sharp lines and artifacts where the polygon edges are on the
- extruded parts. The stuff looks messy in general. What's the secret to
- having clean text? ("smoothing" in the surface menu didn't help either)
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- 2. What's the fastest/easiest way to clone an obect many times and give
- each clone a different surface name? I made an object and cloaned it 35 times,
- imported each one into modeller, changed the surfaces and exported them all
- back out to Layout, one at a time. I then used "Save All Objects" and
- everything was fine, until I rebooted and came back, and all the new surfaces
- were gone! As a test I cloned an object once and gave the clone a different
- texture, etc, etc, and when I cleared and re-loaded the scene, sure enough,
- it was gone. So I assume Lightwave doesn't actually save the clone objects,
- just the fact that one object needs to be replicated X many times when it;s
- loaded into the scene.
-
- ---Mike
-
- P.S., they're right about NetBombs' mail server, I get 3 copies of each message
- over the list!
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