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Re: [Manta] hitPrim for striking background?


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  • From: Solomon Boulos <boulos@cs.utah.edu>
  • Cc: manta@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: Re: [Manta] hitPrim for striking background?
  • Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:15:51 -0800
No. Multiple primitives can share the same material.
On Dec 17, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Roni Choudhury wrote:

Ok, hitMatl will be null. Now, is there a "semantic" guarantee that different primitives are equipped with different materials? Or is it legal to use a single instance of a material for several different primitives?

roni

Roni Choudhury wrote:
If a ray in a packet strikes the background, is the hitPrim pointer associated with it guaranteed to be null?
roni




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