I am looking for a database clean and fix utility to work with 3ds that would
do the following:
– Orient all normals in an object so they are facing the same logical outward
direction.
That's the minimum. Any more data cleanup abilities are also valuable. Anyone
know of a 3rd party company or other that offers a data cleanup utility for 3ds
meshes?
I'm not aware of any fully automatic way of dealing with normals, but you might
look at the Yost Group's IPAS Disk # 7. "Optimize" displays visible "vector
arrows" along with a real-time shaded display to let you interactively flip
normals for cleanup. The disk is available from 4DVision (Schreiber
Instruments) dealers.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates