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Texture vs. Material

by Fritz Myrer · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 09/25/2006 (11:22 pm) · 6 replies

Do you have to map a texture to a material? Isn't it possible just to use the texture defined in the DTS?
Just wondering because we gonna move over 100 objects from TGE to TSE.
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Torque Owner Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund
#1
09/25/2006 (11:46 pm)
For now its a must....... very annoying for those plain "only has texture" materials, but a requirement unless you code something into the engine

Torque 3D Owner Fritz Myrer
#2
09/26/2006 (12:42 am)
Ok. Need to find me a slave then :)

Torque 3D Owner Fritz Myrer
#3
09/26/2006 (1:05 am)
The mapTo property; can you use the path as well there or will the mapping apply to all object using that texture name no matter where the texture is located (path wise)? Got multiple objects using textures of the same name (not the same texture).

Associate Manoel Neto
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#4
09/26/2006 (10:50 am)
You can write a function in script to scan some specific folders for jpg and png files, and create a material for each one using eval(). No need to map one by one.

Associate Kyle Carter
#5
09/28/2006 (7:51 pm)
Doing things like Manoel suggests is very smart IMHO.

Torque Owner Erik Madison
#6
09/29/2006 (8:58 am)
Try this.