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flat shaded


Purpose
To switch on flat shading mode for the currently active window.

Usage
Click the flat shaded button to activate it. The active window will toggle the display between flat shaded and wire frame mode.

On SGI workstations that support GL texture mapping, any maps in the diffuse and reflection attributes are represented by textured polygons in flat shaded mode. This can slow down interaction considerably on workstations that emulate texture mapping in software. If this is the case, you can turn texture mapping off by typing: 

setenv NOGIGTEXTUREMAPS 1
in your Unix shell before starting GIG.

Comments
flat shaded can be activated for each window individually.
flat shaded is not available on all workstations.