From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro 3.0 Q:
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:15:40 +0100
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Vic writes:
>But I want to know if the Z buffer will be implemented in that version.
>That would be a good thing.

It will. Andrei Ellman (ellman AT xs4all DOT nl) has pretty much finished
implementing this, which makes it a particularly easy feature for me to
add :-)

>And another thing: does anyone know how to do smooth shading? The
>results are really cool and it would be a nice adition to the allegro
>routines.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "smooth shading". Allegro already
supports gouraud shaded polys (linear interpolation of color between the
vertices), with the POLYTYPE_GCOL and POLYTYPE_GRGB drawing modes. If
you are talking about phong shading (interpolation of the surface
normal, and doing lighting calculations for each pixel), I'm not
planning to add that myself but anyone who fancies it is of course very
welcome to give it a go...


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