Surface/Brush data available??

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Danny(Posted 2006) [#1]
Is there really NO WAY that you can obtain ANY information WHATSOEVER on a Brush or Surface, like it's diffuse color, alpha, shininess, texture name, etc?!?!?

I guess I already know the answer to this one, but hoping someone might have some trick up their sleave?

cheers,
Danny


Danny(Posted 2006) [#2]
I'm also asking this in that I want to be able to 'identify' a certain surface on a model (if possible) in some other way than it's index - so that when I tweak/revise the model (and thus possibly it's materials) that I can still FIND the SAME surface by some otherway than it's index number (which could have changed because of the revision)....


Tom(Posted 2006) [#3]
Check my post in the link below (the last one) for a link to my DLL, you can get some information about brushes e.t.c.

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63078#706158


Mike0101(Posted 2006) [#4]
Your DLL is very usefull

thnx


jfk EO-11110(Posted 2006) [#5]
Danny you may also indentify a surface by the filename of the texture its brush is using, as seen in the "SaveB3D" example, in the code archives.


Danny(Posted 2006) [#6]
Thanks guys!

And special thanks to Tom for that DLL!!!
I was using an older version already, but didn't knew about this version. Thanks a million!!!!!

Now back to the drawing boards...