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Re: Crazy, OK Heretical Idea ...
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 1 May 2003 15:48:52 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kyle McDonald writes:
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> I would think that some sort of 'material' definition would
> definitely be useful, to give these (reflection etc.) types
> of hints to a renderer.
I posted my opinion about materials yesterday, it would give renderers
more options than only using colors.
> I'm not sure that 'textures' themselves are required, but then
> again, Textures may be a better way to do printing and stickers
> on bricks so....
Textures are faster to create and render than the clumsy way we do
stickers and decorations right now.
I propose we add a new line type for textures, something like this for
example:
6 color x1 y1 z1 u1 v1 x2 y2 z2 u2 v2 x3 y3 z3 u3 v3 blend_mode texture
blend_mode could be 0-opaque, 1-punchthrough, 2-blend, 3-additive or
4-subtractive.
Leonardo
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| (...) Hmm, textures. Another idea might be to introduce BEGIN and END TEXTURE meta-command hints around printed areas so the rendering programs can render them to a texture ahead of time. This could be combined with another meta-command to (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I would think that some sort of 'material' definition would definitely be useful, to give these (reflection etc.) types of hints to a renderer. I'm not sure that 'textures' themselves are required, but then again, Textures may be a better way (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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