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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 02:53:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: MALIK  HAMMED MAHMOUD <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Polygon Problems
To: Thomas Healy <[e-mail]>
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On Sun, 16 Jul 1995, Thomas Healy wrote:

> Hey all,
> I've been messing with the old trick of Subdividing a Plane into major
> polygons and then applying a displacement imagemap of a topographical map
> to it.  Everything seems ok but when I render it, I have "Gaps" of flipped
> polygons.  They are random about the object.  They apear to be flipped away
> from the camera.  I've saved the transformed object, loaded it into modeler,

If you haven't already, try trippling the polygons ('T' I think).  If the
polys have more than three verticess, the displacement map might be
turning them into non-planers.

hammed

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