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> Hi, Lightwavers. I have what may be a newbie question. I
> worked through the Skinning tutorial in the July Video
> Toaster User, and I got a pretty cool-looking tube of something,
> but when I render the tube object in Layout, I get a few
> polygons that _appear_ to render with Gouraud (sp?) shading.
Normally I don't have to follow up my own mail, but I realized
when I re-read this that what I _meant_ to say was that some polygons
render _without_ Gouraud shading. These polygons are near the
center of the visible portion of the object.
> It's like they are flat-shaded, because I can clearly see the
> edges of the polygon. This occurs only in the region of the tube
> where the overall shading is getting darker. I forgot to mention
> this, but I have positioned a distant-type light directly over
> the tube object pointing at the tube.
>
{remainder of my original post deleted}
Mitch ---------------------------->jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu
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