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ent_fixnormals - error? #395644 02/25/12 22:43 02/25/12 22:43
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany J jenGs OP Member
jenGs OP Member J Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany	Hallo, I have to ask now. What the hell is wrong with ent_fixnormals. I modified a mdl (not a terrain) with ent_setvertex and used ent_fixnormals(ent, 1) after the manipulation (I tried also 0 for the frame parameter). The problem: each time I call fixnormals the meash is reset to its original state. That's realy annoiying. I didn't post it in the bugs forum, because I am hoping I missed something.

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: jenGs] #395652 02/26/12 01:32 02/26/12 01:32
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,232 Australia EvilSOB Expert
EvilSOB Expert Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,232 Australia	Ive come across this problem before and never got a good answer to why. BUT, the fix for me was to use "ent_fixnormals(ent, ent.frame);" Hope this is of some help... "There is no fate but what WE make." - CEO Cyberdyne Systems Corp. A8.30.5 Commercial

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: EvilSOB] #395655 02/26/12 05:41 02/26/12 05:41
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,252 Hummel Expert
Hummel Expert Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,252	I don�t see the error here. When calculating the normals for frame X why should the entity be in an other state than frame X?

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: Hummel] #395657 02/26/12 07:24 02/26/12 07:24
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany J jenGs OP Member
jenGs OP Member J Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany	@EvilSOB unfortunately that doesn't fix the problem for me, but thank you for your suggestion. @Hummel That's the thing I don't understand here. I do some heavy vertex manipulations, I added the wireframe material to see if the mesh is realy modified. If I don't call fixnormals, the mesh is modified like it is supposed to be. But even if I use fixnormals a lot of frames later (or in the same frame), the mesh is reset to it's original state. And to be sure, no mdl has any frames (one of course).

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: jenGs] #395666 02/26/12 11:35 02/26/12 11:35
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,252 Hummel Expert
Hummel Expert Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,252	Ahh, now I got it: it resets your deformation also. Well, that�s definitely not correct. Best is you upload a small sample project showing the prob so others can check what�s going wrong there.

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: jenGs] #395670 02/26/12 13:39 02/26/12 13:39
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 900 Lgh rojart User
rojart User Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 900 Lgh	Try with D3DXComputeNormals, like code below: Code: function on_n_event() { while (key_n){wait (1);} LPD3DXMESH Mesh = ent_getmesh(ent, 0, 0); D3DXComputeNormals(Mesh, 0); ent_setmesh(ent, Mesh, 0, 0); } Regards, Robert Quote Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. by Albert Einstein PhysX Preview of Cloth, Fluid and Soft Body A8.47.1P

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: rojart] #395704 02/26/12 19:31 02/26/12 19:31
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany J jenGs OP Member
jenGs OP Member J Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 283 Germany	Thank you rojart. that helps. It is a good workaround. Perhaps it is even how ent_fixnormals should do the job. I will put a small example together to show how this "bug" works. Even if there is a workaround the function should work (or be on the bug list)

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: jenGs] #395759 02/27/12 13:39 02/27/12 13:39
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,986 Frankfurt jcl Chief Engineer
jcl Chief Engineer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,986 Frankfurt	This was already reported for terrain some time ago. It is fixed in the latest version.

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: jcl] #395785 02/27/12 16:25 02/27/12 16:25
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,232 Australia EvilSOB Expert
EvilSOB Expert Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,232 Australia	Can you say WHICH version that is? Is it a public version? Or is still in 'closed' beta? Thankx "There is no fate but what WE make." - CEO Cyberdyne Systems Corp. A8.30.5 Commercial

Re: ent_fixnormals - error? [Re: EvilSOB] #395839 02/28/12 09:02 02/28/12 09:02
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,986 Frankfurt jcl Chief Engineer
jcl Chief Engineer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,986 Frankfurt	It's the beta. But if someone needs the beta for testing such a particular problem, please PM me - I can submit a link.

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