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From: Ace Miles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Surface Mapping Problem
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At 06:44 PM 1/29/96 -0800, you wrote:
>  Got a question about a suefacing problem I'm having.  I'm working on a
>your stereo-typical "mech" type model.  The problem I'm having is surfacing
>logo's number's and other general "decals" onto parts of it.  I've seen
>numberous discussions of this here before, but they all seemed to deal with
>decaling something fairly simple to an object (like Drill/Stenciling a
>number on the side of something).  I need to have a number of fairly
>complex decals put onto the object.  I have tried rendering out an ortho
>view of the part to be decaled, then painting on it and using it as the
>surface map for those polygons, but I must be geting some distortion from
>the camera/lighting because the mape never quite fits right it's always off
>along curved edges.  Any help is appreciated.
>  Todd LeMoine

When you are rendering out your part to be mapped, are you trying to get rid
of the perspective? You know, by pulling the camera WAY back and zooming WAY in.
-Ace
        Ace Miles * Senior Animator * Time Warner Interactive
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