How to load a 3ds and mask it?

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Boiled Sweets (Posted 2006) [#1]

I have a 3ds model that has black areas on it. How can I make these masked?

Genexi2 (Posted 2006) [#2]

Use Flag4 on LoadTexture? (defaults to masking RGB 0,0,0) Unsure how to mask it if the texture is loaded with the model itself though. [EDIT] Ah yes, I believe you use TextureFilter command before loading the model if model contains the textures. Hope that works, havent dabbled in B3d for ages now.

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2006) [#3]

yes, TextureFIlter is your friend here. Do something like this: Cleartexturefilters() texturefilter "",4 or 9 mesh=loadmesh("whatever.3ds") texturefilter "",9 9 (1+8) is default and should be reset after using other filters.

Boiled Sweets (Posted 2006) [#4]

Thanks JFK - perfect.

Dreamora (Posted 2006) [#5]

Its simpler if you define a beginning sequence like m_ on which you set 4 + 9 as default filter. then you can simply name all textures m_something.bmp /png /tga and it will work without reseting the texture filter.

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2006) [#6]

problems may arise when the meshes are arleady textured with certain files and you don't want/can alter the texture paths in the mesh file. At the other hand, using a prefix like Dreamore said is useful since it allows to use various flags on the surfaces of a mesh. Tho it requires to follow a naming convention already in the creation process of the meshes.