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(...) Since Jason brought this up -- *is* there a method for material/texture mapping in z-buffer renderers like LDraw? TLG is using more 'special treatment' materials in their parts, and it would be very nice if LDraw could keep up. I'd be a very (...) (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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(...) I posted my opinion about materials yesterday, it would give renderers more options than only using colors. (...) Textures are faster to create and render than the clumsy way we do stickers and decorations right now. I propose we add a new (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Defining the material would be one side of the issue. We (ie, the LSC) could adopt/adapt the LDLite COLOR statement to handle materials. My question is really on the technical side: I'm somewhat aware of the technique of texture-mapping, but I (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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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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(...) Create a 0 MATERIAL extension instead, where you can define the properties of the surface (smooth, bump, rubber, etc.) and keep the color selection using the standard LDraw way so we don't break compatibility. (...) This is a case by case (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I like this. It would allow you to define a bunch of materials up front and then apply them to some of the surfaces. Could we use this for printed textures as well, or would that be better with a different meta-command? How would you apply the (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I was thinking we would have a pre-defined set of materials, so we don't need to define them. (...) That's what I had in mind. (...) You need texture coordinates to be able to apply textures but you don't need them for smooth, rubber and (...) (21 years ago, 2-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) For POV-Ray, this could already be accomplished with the 0 IFL3P commands. But people would have to do some fast talking to convince me to include the needed scanned image files in the parts library. Steve (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I appreciate that. But the only software I've seen use texture mapping has been based on raytracing. Well, actually I don't know how most gaming engines work. BUT, I still want to know -- is there a texture-mapping algorithm that mere mortals (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, I think it would be good to not encode the materials in the rendering programs. There are always going to be new materials, just like LEGO keeps coming up with new colors. (...) That would work for some things, like bumpy surfaces on (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Have you looked at ldview? It uses texture mapping to display the LEGO logos on the studs. (...) I was under the impression that they ALL use texture mapping nowadays to get more detail with less polygons. (...) Sure. Just do a google search (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I see what you mean. We've actually started doing this for certain materials such as gold, silver, chrome, and rubber. Ldview and ldglite already tinker with the specular properties for some of these materials based on the predefined color (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, there's been several different pearlescents. Mostly in Bionicle products. Some of the colors include tan, gray, dark gray, and sand blue. The pearlescence appears (to my eye) to be mixed in throughout the material, not just a surface (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, I wasn't clear: I know they use texture-mapping, but I don't know if they're more like raytracers, or more like z-bufferers. I guess it probably isn't comparable/answerable, since they all rely on graphics hardware (or software (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) There are also a few in Star Wars, Spybotics, and Racers, but I can't recall ever seeing any that didn't come in Technic sets. (...) Pretty much the same all the way through. Sorta. The metallic colors are produced by using a different type of (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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