BOT_SYNC(nged)

Synchronizes the normals of all facets within a BOT primitive so they are all in the same direction.

📅 published 7.44.0, from nixpkgs unstable

✨ BOT_SYNC 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to BOT_SYNC(nged) — a page from the BRL-CAD User Commands manual, and honestly? it's a little glow-up tool for your BOT primitives. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

bot_sync — synchronizes the normals of all facets within a BOT primitive so they're all pointing the same direction. that's it. that's the whole job. and it slays at it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bot_sync {bot} [bot2 bot3]...

so you give it a {bot} to start with, and then like… as many more as you want: [bot2 bot3]... — the more the merrier, no cap 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so picture this: you've got a BOT primitive, and its facets are all arguing about which way is "out." bot_sync steps in and synchronizes the normals of all facets within that BOT primitive so they're all in the same direction. group chat harmony restored 💖

here's the vibe check though — when you're viewing a BOT with the MGED e -m1 or draw -m1 command and some of the exterior facets are black while some are shaded (red by default), that's the tell 👀 the black facets have their normal in the wrong direction. literally them acting out.

to correct this, the recommended order is: first run bot_vertex_fuse, then bot_face_fuse, and then bot_sync. in that order, bestie, don't freestyle it 🙈

and if after all that the result is all exterior facets being black? then hit the MGED bot_flip command to reverse (i.e. flip) all the BOT facet normals. the result should be that all exterior facets become shaded. main character transformation arc ⭐

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Example 1. Normalize facet winding before checking overall orientation.

mged>bot_sync imported_mesh.bot

this synchronizes neighboring facet normals in imported_mesh.bot so they all point consistently — which makes it way easier to see whether a later bot_flip is needed. it's giving "let me get everything on the same page first" energy 🔥

✨ AUTHOR ✨

BRL-CAD Team 👑 (genuinely iconic of them)

✨ BUG REPORTS ✨

found a bug? a problem? something sus? 🦋 reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org — they wanna hear it, fr fr 💜

and that's the page!! go forth and sync those normals, bestie 🌈

mwah 💋 — this has been BOT_SYNC(nged) from the BRL-CAD manual set. bye pookie, see you in the next manpage 🎀✨

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