Swapping Textures for shapebase

#1 Are you trying to re-implement setSkinName?

#2 thanks for ur reply.
not re-implementing skin name

my game requires me to have a bunch of floating runes made using a png file with alpha. the alphaed rune loads fine when i start the game up.

but when i try to use the setOverrideTexture function in shapebase.cc nothing seems to happen. If the png that i use does not contains alpha, i am able use setoverridetexture to swap the texture.

was suspecting its something to do with the material settings... but i'm a noob at this...

#3 I guess what I was trying to do was understand why you're using setOverrideTexture to swap textures. If you're trying to swap textures on a shapebase object use setSkinName because it updates the material list. Or create a function like it that updates the material list.

Using setOverrideTexture completely overrides all materials in the material list. It also has some hard coded texture functions when used. I also have a feeling that when you use setOverrideTexture TSMesh::setMaterial does not enable blending but I haven't tested that. If you're using the same texture just with an alpha channel that would explain why it appears to be doing nothing when in fact it is swapping textures just not enabling blending.

#4 If you do want to force it though you can use setAlphaAlways with a value less than 0.99 and it might enable blending for you but your texture will be very slightly transparent.

#5 i took a look at setskinname and found some resource at
http://www.torquepowered.com/community/resources/view/14366

which allowed me to swap the textures with the alpha!


thanks!