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From: Colin Stuckless <rutgers!cs.mun.ca!colins>
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Subject: Re:backwards license plate

>Mark Thompson <[e-mail]>
>>"Scott Jones (Dr. Jones)" <[e-mail]>

>> But when I map the texture with 'planar image map' on the 'Y'
>> axis and autosize the image and then render it, the license
>> plate appears as a mirrored image.

>Do you mean the image you are mapping is coming out backards? An easy fix
>to this is to make your X dimension in the texture size negative.

  I'm guessing that Scott uses the modeller in the default viewing mode,
and when he created the license plate for the car, what looked like the
front is actually the back. So, the image is actually being mapped to the
opposite side of the plate and you "see through it" and it appears
backwards (I'm assuming the "double-sided" is also turned on). I'd suggest
turning the license plate around 180 degrees and rendering again to see
if it appears normal.

  And if I'm way off base here, please forgive me - but I made the same
mistake once (thinking the back was the front and turning on "double-sided").
:^)



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