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tbjerman

11-22-2001, 09:02 PM

i have a question ..
when i have a mesh that has smooth surface and edge and flat surface together , how do i render the mesh so that only the smooth surface will appears smooth and not the flat surface ???

mikael_aronsson

11-22-2001, 10:26 PM

Hi !

You have to split up the rendering into multiple glBegin/glEnd block one for flat and one for smooth, then you can change between flat/smooth any where you want as long as you are not inside a glBegin/glEnd block.

Mikael