This story happened long time ago, but I just don't want it to be forgotten...
So, long time ago we were using O'Mighty Teh Only One Bugditor (now known as MapEditor). Those were the days when we were betting if it's gonna crash less then ten times a day
One day, our team was joined by shader-guru who brought enlightment to our vision of game development. One of the first thing he did is to change some hard core algorthms which calculate normals, binormals and some other stuff. Everything seemed to be working. The load time was shorter, the overall look was nicer. So, we resaved all our beautiful meshes with this new algorithm, shared them to everyone in the team. Yeah, now we had new, faster, nicer meshes with ... OMG! ... with normals which were complete mess!
It was a nightmare - we had all the meshes with normals which actually weren't so normal
Our meshes wanted to have good normals, our vertices wanted to be normal, and we ... we were just looking at them not knowing how to help them
And our old meshes couldn't be possibly resaved - don't ask why, that's part my mind didn't want to remember...
But, as always, we prayed to Teh Spirit Of Teh O'Mighty Guru, and He gave us answer: "Oh, my n00b sons, put it all together - old meshes together with new meshes. Let them make love, let them born new vertices, let them born new and normal children, and let them die as unnormal." And we did exactly that - we put them together, we made some romantic & erotic atmosphere for them, we even got some "Kate & Leopold" for them, and .... we got them - we got new, sweet, little (actually, they were bigger), verties which were perfectly normal, and it made us to-the-sky happy!
So, if you're desperate, if you don't know what to do, if you're without any hope, if you feel you're not normal, don't worry - just pray to The O'Mighty, have some romance, born some children, and everything will be normal again
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