[Bf-committers] BGE: Removing Singletexture Mode

[Dalai Felinto]

> Is this for viewport drawing too? or only the game engine?

Initially, Mitchell's main idea was to remove it for the game engine. That
would inevitably affects the viewport code though).

My personal concern is to make sure people can still assign textures and
create materials 'as easy' as we had with single texture mode. I don't mind
if the OpenGL lighting is all _ARB and the rest of what Multitexture uses.
But I can foresee people complaining if now we need to create a new texture
for every single material of a game.

It may be simply a matter of having 'use_face_texture' on by default in the
materials. Or to create a new option in the UV/Image editor to create a
Texture from it (and assign to selected object/material).

Cheers,
Dalai
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2013/9/11 Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Erwin Coumans <erwin.coumans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It is about time to remove it, I wrote that code more than 13 years ago
> :)
> >
> >
> > On 10 September 2013 23:03, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello devs,
> >>
> >> Based on feedback from a BA thread[0], I would like to start working on
> >> removing the Singletexture material mode. By removing Singletexture, we
> can
> >> focus on making Multitexture a fixed-function material mode and GLSL a
> >> shader-only material mode. I would like to deprecate Singletexture in
> 2.69
> >> and remove it in 2.70. Ideally, we should be able to get blend files
> using
> >> Singletexture to convert smoothly over to Multitexture.
> >>
> >> The biggest benefit of removing Singletexture is we get to cleanup some
> >> code. For example, KX_PolygonMaterial can be completely removed since
> >> KX_BlenderMaterial handles both Mutlitexture and GLSL material modes. We
> >> can also remove some checks for if we're using KX_BlenderMaterial, since
> >> KX_BlenderMaterial will be the only remaining concrete implementation of
> >> RAS_IPolygonMaterial. Furthermore, we'd no longer need this
> >> IndexPrimatives/IndexPrimativesMulti mess in the rasterizer code.
> >>
> >> The feedback from BA was mostly users, so I'd like to get some devs'
> >> opinions on this as well. Any feedback would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mitchell Stokes
> >>
> >> [0]
> >>
> >>
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?306748-Dev-Anyone-still-using-Singletexture-materials
>
> Is this for viewport drawing too? or only the game engine?
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