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Bart T. Reged: 01/07/06 Posts: 196 Send PM Re: Supermodel WIP Update: LeMans 24, Fighting Vipers 2, and Star Wars Trilogy 02/15/11 09:29 PM Reply Right. I haven't looked for it yet, but there is certainly a setting that controls shading -- flat shading is supported by the hardware. I do have some cube and sphere data to look at. The cubes would be flat shaded and the spheres smooth shaded, so I may be able to use them to figure out the shading parameters. Here's what I do know: - There is a crude vertex sharing capability, but it only allows polygons to reuse vertices from the previous poly. The obvious thing to do is to average the normals for shared vertices, but this hardly has any effect. - Separately-stored adjacency matrices and vertex normals can be ruled out (or does anyone have information to the contrary?) - It is not sufficient to search only polygons within a limited window (say +/- 32 polys) to detect adjacent faces. The whole model has to be scanned for smooth shading to look right in most cases. - As far as I can tell, although there may be a bit or two that controls shading in the polygon header, there really isn't anything that indexes vertex normals. - Likewise, there is no room for vertex normals in the vertex data itself, which consists of 4 32-bit words: x, y, z, and u and v (16 bits each). I thought it could be hiding in the lower 3 bits of the U and V data, because I once observed that ignoring the 3-bit fraction has no noticeable effect on texturing, but I'm starting to become convinced that it is totally unrelated to normals or polygon linkage. Lost World has a rippling water effect in the intro which requires smooth shading and requires the entire mesh to be scanned. Might be a good test case because it's guaranteed to have smooth shading enabled. EDIT: At one point, I thought it was strange that polygon normals are in 2.22 format. It seems like it could be done with far less precision. Logically, I looked here for possible clues, but it doesn't seem like there's anything in there... Bart Edited by Bart Trzynadlowski (02/15/11 09:40 PM)

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