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3D Texture note:

by Richard Ranft · in Torque 3D Beginner · 03/10/2014 (9:08 pm) · 4 replies

When using png files for textures on 3D objects it seems the engine is offended by anything less than 16 million colors. It might have been a combination of factors, but changing from 256 colors to 16 million made it work - I would have pulled my hair out if I had kept any....
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    Torque Owner Nathan Martin
    TRON 2001 Network
    #1
    03/11/2014 (9:51 am)
    Pics or it didn't happen. ;)

    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #2
    03/11/2014 (2:49 pm)
    I would have taken a pic, but it was "space" and the sphere was showing up black until I changed the color depth....

    I'll try to reproduce it later.

    Torque 3D Owner JeffH
    #3
    03/11/2014 (2:57 pm)
    use jpeg or jng then? :P

    Torque Owner Richard Ranft
    Roostertail Games
    #4
    03/11/2014 (3:01 pm)
    I think maybe I'll see if I can find out why the png wasn't loading properly in the first place - I've been digging around in that part of the engine lately anyway.

    During the development of 3SS someone found a .jpg picture of a toy monkey on a dashboard that would cause T2D to crash when it was loaded....