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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 20:07:11 -0700 (MST)
From: Ernie Wright <ernie@gaspra.pd.com>
Subject: RENDERING ERRORS
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Alan Chan (alan.chan@oubbs.telecom.uoknor.edu) wrote:
> ...measuring 20000km by 20000km...
20,000 KILOMETERS? Your plane is about 4/5 of the surface area of the
entire planet, and based on that alone I'd guess that you've run out of
significant digits. A lot of LightWave's floating point calculations
are done with about 7 decimal digits of precision. That's enough for
most things, but it's not enough for, say, a scale model of the solar
system.
Try making the plane A LOT smaller, make the ground the same color (or
make it the sky color), and use a little distant fog to hide the break.
I mean, what is grass supposed to look like from a thousand miles away
--even if it's a kilometer high? And why is everything so big?
- Ernie