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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Mirror an Object?

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nz0
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Posted: 7th Apr 2016 19:02
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A lot of objects are able to be mirrored one way or another (are symmetrical on one or more axis)
I thought a mirror function would be extremely useful for reducing load times and model media footprint size if you could load half a model, clone and mirror it.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 7th Apr 2016 19:48
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To mirror on the X axis...

To mirror on the Y axis...

To mirror on the Z axis...


Boom!

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SoftMotion3D
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Posted: 8th Apr 2016 15:45
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not a boom! in most cases the indexes need flipping also since your basically making it insideout by assigning a negative scale factor. This will work if you have your cull draw mode set to 0 but normally backfaces are not drawn to increase performance. I would also imagine that the normal will be backwards also reflecting light incorrectly.

I would use external software to actually flip it as it will correct the light reflection and eliminate needing to draw backfaces.
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nz0
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Posted: 8th Apr 2016 20:50
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I just noticed there's a bunch of memblock commands for meshes. This will be something worth exploring and could be used for this purpose I think?

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