{"id":979,"date":"2009-12-11T21:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=979"},"modified":"2009-12-11T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T10:32:28","slug":"i-know-i-said-i-wasnt-going-to-do-this-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/12\/11\/i-know-i-said-i-wasnt-going-to-do-this-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I know I said I wasn&#8217;t going to do this, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Shading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-980\" title=\"Shading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Shading-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Shading\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Shading-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Shading.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;I spent some time today fixing the vsMeshMaker bug which was causing procedural geometry to sometimes have weird &#8220;creases&#8221; which caused sharp changes in lighting across a smooth surface. \u00a0The cursor is here pointing to a spot where the old code used to put a sharp crease (for comparison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ProceduralGeometry2.png\">a screenshot of the old, broken shading<\/a>). \u00a0To be honest, this new implementation still isn&#8217;t quite correct; \u00a0where the last implementation did the right thing about 95% of the time, this new one does the right thing closer to 99% of the time. \u00a0If that eventually becomes a problem, I&#8217;ll fix it properly. \u00a0But fixing it properly will require a lot more processing and storage, so I&#8217;m hoping that the 99% fix will be good enough. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n<p>As always, apologies for the debug lines scrawled all over the screen. \u00a0They&#8217;re just marking various boundaries during my testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I spent some time today fixing the vsMeshMaker bug which was causing procedural geometry to sometimes have weird &#8220;creases&#8221; which caused sharp changes in lighting across a smooth surface. \u00a0The cursor is here pointing to a spot where the old code used to put a sharp crease (for comparison, a screenshot of the old, broken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-fN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}