zbuffering and lrectwrite

[Mark Stadler]

In article <76269 at bu.edu.bu.edu> tjh at bu-pub.bu.edu (Tim Hall) writes:
>I was suprised to find out (through experience) that lrectwrite
>is affected by the zbuffer.  That is when zbuffering is turned
>on lrectwrite only paints those pixels have a zvalue less than
>(or greater etc.. depending on zfunction) some threshold value.
>Actually I'm so suprised that this is the case I wonder if I did
>somthing to cause this.  If this is the normal behavior what is
>the threshold value?  Anyhow, surrounding the lrectwrite call by
>zbuffer FALSE/TRUE commands produced my desired result.
>
>-- 
>-Tim Hall
>tjh at bu-pub.bu.edu
>
this should not be the case.  a machine configuration and a sample
program demonstrating the problem (preferable small) could help
us in explaining what the problem is (yours or ours).


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