Textureless wireframe and other questions
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| Hi I'm going to write a model viewer and want a wireframe mode that doesn't texture the wireframe, as B3D does with textured models. I was thinking of just making a copy of the model and texturing it with a flat-coloured texture. Is there a better way, do you think? Thanks in advance! [edit] I'll leave the "other questions" for another time. :) |
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| couldn't you just switch the texture back and forth with the entitytexture command, would you really need to make a copy of the mesh to do this? Switching textures doesn't really change the model, only the appearance, I would think. |
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| Well, my first thoughts were to simply strip the texture when displaying in wireframe and then re-applying the texture when out of wireframe. However, not only am I not sure how to strip a texture (possible?) but I also figured things would get complicated with models with multiple surfaces/textures. |
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| I use a simple If Wire = 0 Then EntityTexture entity,texture line where Wire represents 1 (True) for Wireframe or 0 (False) for solid. |
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| Create a white texture and apply it to a higher layer of the textured mesh.. setting the texture blend mode of that texture to 0 will make it invisible when you're not in wireframe mode. |
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| Thanks for all the replys so far, folks. ;) Malice, that would be nice and simple but how would I strip the texture when going into wireframe mode? Chris, would that cause the mesh to be displayed all-white in wireframe, even though the mesh is still textured? I don't really understand how this would work - I don't have any experience of using multiple texture layers, though. Also, what if the model I'm viewing is already multi-textured and using all available texture layers? |
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