Lighting Problem, Help please

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Apr 26, 2000 at 3:00 PM

I have a 3D terrain created by 3D Studio Max. There are some mountains in the terrain with some smooth surfaces. When I render this terrain using D3DIM, the mountains seem to obtain some specular properties and appear shiny and also the mountains are not smooth and they seem to have sharp edges. I have switch off the specular property of the D3D device with SetRenderState (D3DRENDERSTATE_SPECULARENABLE, FALSE); What could be the problem. Can anyone help please. Arun

3dModelMan

Apr 26, 2000 at 4:57 PM

Oh come on, you''re making this 3d stuff look hard!

(I still bear the scars of sorting things like this just a couple of months ago).

Try setting the shading mode to gouraud, somewhere in your D3DInit routine:

lpDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRENDERSTATE_SHADEMODE, D3DSHADE_GOURAUD );

Bye

Matt

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arunvb

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arunvb

Apr 26, 2000 at 5:25 PM

I hope the default shading is GOURAND. Anyway I tried that too but it didnt work out.

Arun

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