Brushes
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| Ok, just to save me alil time in testing and research. Could you help me fully realize what a brush actually is. I'm thinking it's more than a texture holder. Does it have it's own UVs you can plot or something? Isn't a brush adding a surface or something like that as well? |
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| A brush holds a collection of data applied to a surface/entity, including the texture |
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| What data exactly? I hear people use brushes for blending on terrain systems. I see u have a terrains system in you sig so u know some stuff about it. Can u help me out? |
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| What data exactly? Use the B3d documentation and use the category section to find Brush. |
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| You'll maybe not even need to use a brush in the entire time you use blitz3d. Only time i have used it, is to GET a texture from a surface. |
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| ok, so basicly, if u had multiple surfaces, then u'll have to use a brush. That's what i'm gettin out of it. |
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| Drey's confusion may come from the fact that some modelling progs create meshes by using 'brushes' (their term, bad term) which is not the same as a Blitz brush. |
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| A brush can hold a lot of settings like multiple texture layers, color, alpha etc. It seems like Brushes are the "real texures" while Loadtexture and TextureEntity are dead end commands. Example: if you want to save a Mesh with Textures (eg. the SaveB3D Example in the code archives), they need to use Brushes to allow to determine the used Texture Files etc. An other example: You can load a Mesh, check its brushes for a special Texture, and then replace this brush by an other brush that has a diffrent number of texture layers. |
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