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Faceted Normals About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Faceted Normals // New Users 1  |   Order by default Post by johnhoward // Dec 27, 2007, 12:39pm johnhoward Total Posts: 231 I have used an Adobe Reader search of some TS 7.51 Manual chapters to try to find any info on what the Faceted Normals button and the related buttons do (Smooth Normals and Autofaceted Normals). Can someone give me a clue about where in the manual I can read about these? Thanks again To the folks at Caligari: As long as there is no index, it would be a great help if the manual was a single PDF doc, then it could be searched using the new Acrobat Reader instead of having to search each chapter separately. Post by Emma // Dec 27, 2007, 1:09pm Emma Total Posts: 344 Yes, you are right regarding the index probem with the manual. Used to be allright in 7.1 and before;) Now to your question. The picture below show the effect of the two main things which will be used. Autofacet takes an automatic value coresponding on the object as far as I know. So spheres will be rounded,but tubes for example will be facetted. You can use the buttons also after having already created the objects if you are not satisfied with their shapes. HTH Post by johnhoward // Dec 28, 2007, 12:40pm johnhoward Total Posts: 231 Thanks Emma, Can you tell me where this is discussed in the manual? Also, I am trying to figure out what is meant by "normals" in this context. The term is used several places, but so far I can find no definition. Post by kena // Dec 28, 2007, 2:54pm kena Total Posts: 2321 Normals are the actual surfaces between the lines. Chapter 3 explains the Normals sweep tool and shows them in the picture. At the bottom of page 34 in that chapter, it says The term "Normal" refers to a "Face's" normal direction, which by default is perpendicular to the surface of the face. In easy terms, the sweep will occur in the same direction as the face is pointing. so a face's "Normal" is straight out from the face. Or, the Normal for the top of a cube is straight up, while the Normal for the side is straight out. Post by johnhoward // Dec 30, 2007, 7:09am johnhoward Total Posts: 231 Thanks, Kena. That helps.

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