home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- You wrote:
- >
- >At 12:02 PM 4/8/96 -0700, you wrote:
- >
- >> The first question involves surface normals. I cut a section
- out of
- >>a sphere and then wanted to close the top and bottom openings. I
- checked
- >>the manual and then selected the points (in clockwise order) and
- pressed "p"
- >>as indicated in the manual. The solid preview showed a polygon
- closing the
- >>hole, however when i selected it, i couldn't see a surface normal.
- The poly
- >>had 32 sides and when i tripled it, i got lots of normals. The stats
-
- >>windows said that it wasn't "non-planer" before i made it all 3 sided
- polys.
- >> Any ideas ?
- >
- >Not sure about this one. I have had things like this happen but it
- usually
- >had to do with non-planar polys or forgetting to merge points. Anybody
- now
- >what's up?
-
- Sounds like unmerged points. Sometimes in a configuration of points,
- even having two points that are in the same place will make the poly
- grossly nonplanar, in which case it will not show a normal.
-
- AC
-
-