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Difference between Material and Shader
In a game a material does only influence the visual appearance of the object. The visual appearance is effected by shaders. So regarding to terminology is there a difference between materials and ...
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Detecting Light Intensity Around Characters
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Since there seemed to be a bit of confusion: I am asking this for purely didactic reasons, I'm not searching for the most efficient solution. Reformulated question: I'm working under ...
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Rendering different materials in a voxel terrain
Each voxel datapoint in my terrain model is made up of two properties: density and material type. Each is stored as an unsigned integer value (but the density is interpreted as a decimal value ...
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Is there a material format for OpenCTM files?
I consider using OpenCTM files for my game. Since the format only claims to store raw mesh data, my question is if there is a associated file format for material data and paths to texture maps.
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Distortion of color space in UDK (material editor)
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Using UDK's material editor, I wish to use a texture as a two-dimensional array of values for mathematical computations (basically, the color components of each pixel in the texture alter ...
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Ogre: Light not reflecting correctly
In my Ogre 3d scene I have an empty box, and within that there are three small cubes. The camera is also within the box, facing the three small cubes. The user can move and rotate the camera with the ...
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Importing materials along with terrain from Bryce
I've created bunch of terrain in Bryce, and I've managed to import the most basic part of it without any fuss. However, anything more complex (mountains, etc) cannot be imported without the material ...
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Cocos3d lighting problem
I'm currently working on a cocos3d project, but I'm having some trouble with lighting and I have no idea how to solve it. I've tried everything and the lighting is always as bad in the game.
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