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From: rutgers!ced.berkeley.edu!kevink (Kevin Kodama)
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Subject: Clip mapping

Clip mapping is Lightwave's beefed up transparency mapping. Since i want to
use lots of trees in a scene, i rendered the Tree against a black background,
used Photoshop to reduce the image b and w, and image mapped the color image,
and clip mapped the b&w image, leaving me with the tree using 1 poly 1

However, when i rendered both the clip mapped tree and the *real* million
poly tree, they rendered about the same speed ! The big savings comes in
memory, having to load the many poly tree would eat a lot of ram.

A question about clip_mapping- why isn't the information saved with the
object, ala transparency mapping ?

kevin
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