Textures on interiors

#1 TSE uses materials, that you have to apply. Slightly confusing I know, but you should check out the documentation which clearly tells you how this stuff works. It is also evident if you look at the demo.

#2 You need to create a material definition for each texture used. Make a file called materials.cs in the same directory as your dif and have it do something like this:

new Material(UNIQUEMATERIALNAME)
{
baseTex[0] = "mymaterial";
}

That would be the simplest material definition. There is a full list on TDN of the the base material types or you can create custommaterials for advanced shader use.

#3 Lads, thanks very much. I played with materials in an earlier milestone, up to and including writing my own shaders, but did not have to create a material for every texture I used. That seems slightly crazy to me! However if that's the way it's done I'll go and read the docs.

Apologies for not searching the docs, I didn't bother as I didn't think materials applied to plain old textures splattered on interiors, unless you wanted to do something fancy with shaders.

Thanks again,

Dave.

#4 Well, I've spent the last couple of hours reading and trying things out with no luck. The docs on TDN are way out of date, using datablocks and addmaterialmapping(). Unless I am looking in the wrong place...

An example of what I am trying is this

new Material(misc174mat)
{
baseTex[0] = "misc174";
mapTo = "misc174";

};


The texture is named misc174.jpg. What happens now is that the "no material" texture disappears but the other textures do not appear. The dif is invisible from the outside. If you move inside the dif some of the walls are bright yellow and some are invisible. I have no bright yellow textures specified. It's really frustrating.

Any help, or pointers to up-to-date docs, would be gratefully recieved.

Thanks,

Dave.

#5 Hey...try this...

new Material(AnynameHere)
{


baseTex[0] = "misc174";
bumpTex[0] = "misc174_b"; ///only put this in if you have bump maps

pixelSpecular[0] = true;
specular[0] = "1.0 1.0 1.0 0.1"; //you can add stuff like this to it
specularPower[0] = 32.0;
};

leave out that mapto command....hope it helps...works for me just like this

#6 Another thing that it could be is if your are defining the material in a different directory from where the texture is. If so you can do a full path like basetex[0] = "~/data/interiors/misc174"; and it should find it.

#7 Hi folks,

Thanks a million, got it working. It was as JC said, I was defining the materials in a different directory to the textures...doh!

Oh well, as usual it wasn't a complete waste of time, I learnt some useful things. Isn't that what makes programming an endless round of fun? And also found that there's a handy little function in the materials.cs in the demo folder that saves a lot of time defining new materials.

Thanks again to one and all for your help with this.

Dave.