About Leadwerks 3D World Studio Exported Map

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Mortiis

(Posted 2008) [#1]

Is it possible to call an UpdateNormals recursively for a 3D World Studio exported b3d map.

I tried this but it's giving me a memory access violation.

	Function UpdateNormalsRecursive( entity )
		UpdateNormals entity
		
		For c = 1 To CountChildren( entity )
			UpdateNormals GetChild( entity, c )
		Next	
	End Function

fredborg

(Posted 2008) [#2]

Try something like this:

	Function UpdateNormalsRecursive( entity )

If EntityClass(entity) = "Mesh"
		UpdateNormals entity
EndIf

		For c = 1 To CountChildren( entity )
			UpdateNormalsRecursive GetChild( entity, c )
		Next	
	End Function

Mortiis

(Posted 2008) [#3]

It doesn't produce any errors but it doesn't update any normals I think. Even it's in B3D format, doesn't 3D World Studio maps have normals?

I'm trying to get Swift Shadow System to cast shadows on 3dws maps with no success.

JoshK

(Posted 2008) [#4]

It is probably updating the normals but the materials in the b3d file use lightmaps or vertex colors, so they won't work with hardware lights.

D4NM4N

(Posted 2008) [#5]

Possibly you are trying to update normals on a pivot or non mesh??

More like this mabe?


Function RecursivePropertyUpdate(h)
	If EntityClass(h)="Mesh"
            entityfx h,0 
            updatenormals h
	EndIf

	For cc=0 To CountChildren(h)
		chi=GetChild(h,cc)
		If chi RecursivePropertyUpdate(chi)
	Next
End Function

Lightmapping/fullbright could be another problem

EDIT:

lol, ok fredborg got there first (by 3 days! :P) teach me not to post and scanread when in a real rush.

Still, what happens when you include the entityFX not to fullbright + vertex color into the mix, (added to code=)

Mortiis

(Posted 2008) [#6]

Oh I forgot to post that I've sorted out the problem. My bad. I also used fredborg's code for a start. Thanks everyone.