There's nothing like replying to yourself...
Sometimes I think I writing out the problem post, is enough to
make me see the light. Of course the light doesn't come on until
after I hit 'send'
I need to have Normals on the geometry right? duh.
That's a bummer too, because none of this geometry is
guaranteed to be wound correctly.
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
-Kyle
Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to get lighting working.. and I'm obviously doing something
> wrong.
>
> I have many Shape3Ds.
>
> They all have an Appearance
>
> The Appearance has ColoringAttributes, TransparencyAttributes
> (if needed,) a Material, and Rendering Attributes.
>
> The Material has the Shininess, ColorTarget, AmbientColor,
> DiffuseColor, and LightingEnabled.
>
> The RenderingAttributes object was left with the default
> settings.
>
> My Scenegraph has both an Ambient and a Directional light.
> with 0.6 and 0.8 white values respectively.
>
> My scene is still drawn like it was when none of these existed.
> My scene is made up of many polygons many of which share the same
> color. Before (well still 'cause it's not working) adding this
> stuff, it was hard to make out most of the edges of the objects
> because they were shaded the same color as the object behind them.
>
> Am I doing something obviously wrong here?
>
> Is lighting even going to help me solve the problem I'm trying
> to solve?
>
> -Kyle
>
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