[Orxonox-commit 199] r2870 - trunk/src/orxonox/tools

[bknecht at orxonox.net]

Author: bknecht
Date: 2009-03-30 21:35:53 +0000 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 2870

Modified:
   trunk/src/orxonox/tools/Mesh.cc
Log:
additional commentary to my last commit. maybe useful in the future, maybe useless as we already solved that issue

Modified: trunk/src/orxonox/tools/Mesh.cc
===================================================================
--- trunk/src/orxonox/tools/Mesh.cc	2009-03-30 21:34:51 UTC (rev 2869)
+++ trunk/src/orxonox/tools/Mesh.cc	2009-03-30 21:35:53 UTC (rev 2870)
@@ -69,7 +69,15 @@
             {
                 this->entity_ = this->scenemanager_->createEntity("Mesh" + convertToString(Mesh::meshCounter_s++), meshsource);
                 this->entity_->setCastShadows(this->bCastShadows_);
+
                 this->entity_->setNormaliseNormals(true);
+                /*
+                    Excerpt from Ogre forum:
+                    "Note that the above is only for the fixed function pipeline.
+                    If/when you get into shaders, you'll need to manually normalize() the normal inside the vertex or pixel shader."
+
+                    I don't know exactly what this means, but I put this here if there will be problems with shaders.
+                */
             }
             catch (...)
             {