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From: Dan Ablan <dma@mcs.net>
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Subject: Re: trace shadows glicthes all the sudden (3.5 and 4.0 amiga)
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Mike Harlock wrote:
>
> What would be the cause of tons of raytrace shadow glitches showing up
> as solid black polys in your model all of the sudden, and then if you
> use, say, shadowmaps, they go away.
>
> It was never doing it before a certain moment in time, and I've been
> making little changes to the model as I go, and I'm not sure if I did
> anything specific that would have caused that. I sent the model to my
> friend who's using 4.0, same trouble.
Check to see if any of the polygons are non-planer.