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Dark GDK / Object Scale & Lights

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_Pauli_
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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 00:47
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When i scale an object ( e.g. a simple box ) it becomes darker as it gets bigger!
there is no additional adjustment to the object, no texture, no shader, just dbColorObject ( and dbScaleObject of course ).

How can i avoid this to happen?
I tried hiding light 0 and creating a new one, which i made directional, but the effect is the same!
I don't understand this, because directional lights ( the default light 0 is one too, i guess ) have no range.

They say it's better to burn out, than it is to fade away...
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Morcilla
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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 11:49
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Try using:

dbSetNormalizationOn ();

somewhere at the beginning of the code.
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_Pauli_
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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 13:39
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wow Morcilla, that worked perfectly!
Thanks a lot!

Just because i'm curious: what does this do exactly?
Does this make it update the normals each frame or what?

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Morcilla
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Posted: 17th Sep 2009 12:02
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Well, as stated in the documentation, it normalizes the normals. Not sure of how it works internally, but perhaps it just scales the normals when scaling an object.
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