Colors and 3D Models
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| Hello! I have a 3D model with colors and textures. But when I show it in Blitz, the most of the colors don't appear! My code: Type boter Field name$ Field file$ Field dsrc$ Field model End Type [...] player.boter = New boter dfile = ReadFile(mybot$) player\dsrc$ = mybot$ player\name$ = ReadLine(dfile) player\file$ = ReadLine(dfile) CloseFile dfile cam = CreateCamera() player\model = LoadMesh(path$+"GFX\3D\"+player\file$) PositionEntity player\model,0,0,5 Cls UpdateWorld RenderWorld Text 0,0,player\name$ Flip WaitKey End My model is in .x format. Can you help me? |
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| make sure your textures are in the same folder as your model. |
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| the textures are in the same folder. but the colors of the model (not of the textures) don't appear... |
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| I'm confused. if you texture something, it textures it. I don't think you can color and texture. You can in blitz. I'm confused :) |
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| But DOGA L2 does... what can I do? |
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| I'm still not sure what your trying to do. Why don't you just use a texture? And incorparate all the color onto the texture? |
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| I'm using the same texture with different (material, not on texture) colors on a 3D model. When I open this model with the mesh viewer of the directx (9) sdk, it works but in blitz I see only the texture... doesn't blitz support material effects? |
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| No, it doesn't i'm afraid :S I very sure of this. I don't wana say Flat out no tho :) |
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| I wouldn't be so quick to say flat out no either - you *can* colour each vertex individually in blitz so there's no reason why this shouldn't work although I've never tried importing the colours with the model. Have you tried setting the object's entityfx flag 2? (flag 2 is, according to the documentation for entityfx: "use vertex colours instead of brush colour" put this in after you load the model and see if it helps entityfx player\model,2 |
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| it doesn't work |
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| Hmm, perhaps if you convert your model into a .b3d file format it will do it for you. I'm sure someone can help you out as far as what to do to convert the model format. Because blitz definitely DOES support vertex colouring with texture. |
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| If you convert a Doga model to b3d I'm pretty sure you lose the colour... tried it myself a while back but I could be misremembering. |
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| Hmm, well there must be some way of doing it. Preferably without having to write a custom loader! I wonder why the colour info isn't being applied to the vertexes properly. |
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| Is it a DirectX 7 model, or DX 8/9? Blitz will only import version 7 models... |
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| erm... I don't know. How to find out? |
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| Which 3D modelling program are you using? I use 3DCanvas which dosn't seem to export colours when loaded into Blitz. However if you make the colour you want into a texture using a paint program say 32x32 and apply it to the model it should work ok. >Carpman |
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| I'm using Doga L2 |
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| I haven,t seen Doga L2 but in the tutorial section of 3DCanvas one of the biggest mistakes is to use colours instead of textures. It's ok to use colours to block in the model initally but these must then be replaced by a texture for best results. If you just fill an area with colour and then decide when it's loaded into Blitz you want to change it, you would have to go back to Doga,change the colour, re-export the model,and then load back into Blitz. You could change the colour from within Blitz also but again not straightforward. However if you make your colour into a texture and you want to change it all you have to do is load it into your paint program, change the colour, save it,job done. >Carpman |
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| I found in 3dcanvas, that when i painted my model different colours, i made them all different surfaces. Back on topic, is there not an option to bake or combine the vertex colours onto the texture? |
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| Ross, >I found in 3dcanvas, that when i painted my model different colours, i made them all different surfaces. This is because when you apply colours in 3DC you actually apply a mask. If you apply say red to 10 different faces, every time you select red in the materials window it will highlite all the faces of the model coloured red. >Carpman |
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| Oh righte :) I stopped using 3d canvas :) |
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