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#Hidden Line rendering

    04-Jan-95 20:24:20
Fm: Aaron Weintraub 70222,557
To: Ted Boardman 71022,3001
> What gets mapped is determined by edge visibility only, as you noticed. > If you want the diagonal to split the face of the cube, just do a > Modify/Edge/Visible and rerender. Don't forget the AutoEdge feature for > complex objects. That's what I would have expected, although it does not work exactly like that. True, if I have a cube with the diagonal hidden, that edge won't be rendered. But this seems to only work on flat square faces, or other coplanar sets of faces. Try this: Create an L-Sphere, not too complicated. Face Map it with a white frame image as I described in my last message, then render. This looks like it does in the editor, a bunch of squares. Now, do Modify/Edge/Invisible on a group of the front edges that you'd be looking at in the render (turn backface on to make it easier to know which ones to click on) and render it. According to what you said, There should be a blank spot where the edges were hidden, but there isn't. Instead, it decides to render all the lines, including diagonals. Why? Aaron