[Radiance-general] Re: Radiance workshop, etc.

[Thomas Bleicher]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:22:12PM -0400, Martin Moeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>  
> my suggested improvement to Radiance:

> reliable smoothing functions to model automobiles etc. 

You can use the mgf-format to store the geometry meshes with the vertex
normals. These files are much smaller than "pure" radiance primitives.
To include the mgf files use "!mgf2rad car.mgf | xform ... " in your *.rad 
files.

To create the mgf file use "3ds2mgf" or write your own exporter. I did
one for Blender a year ago. It's simple if you can access the vertex
normals.

Thomas
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