[Bf-funboard] Material Data-

William Reynish bf-funboard@blender.org
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:38:53 +0200 (CEST)


I have been wanting smoothing set per edge for ages!
This sounds great. The SetSmooth and SetSolid buttons
could be used.

Good luck coding, this will be such an improvement.


 --- Campbell Barton <cbarton@metavr.com> skrev: 
> Hi Jiri- I have alredy coded the ambient colour
> thingy In tuhopuu but 
> sombody removed it (No Idea Why) - Mabe from a
> BF-Blender merge.
> The only issue I had was that there was 1 extra
> slider local/world AMB 
> (set to Worlk be default to be backwards compatable
> with older Blends)
> 
> Storing the Smoothing values in the edges is an
> AWESOME IDEA!!!!!! You 
> rock- I would like to impliment this (mabe myself?)
> It gives manual control without mutch complexity for
> the user.
> 
> I dont know how this will work with the existing
> setting though (Which 
> is per face)- Would eb good to ask Ton about this
> one.
> 
> Also- would the smoothing be a flag 1/0? or 0-255?
> Having a varible ammount would be cool too but it
> mightent be that needed.
> (Either way We be able to import OBJ smoothing
> groups NO problems)
> 
> - Cam
> 
> Jiri Hnidek wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > idea about ambient color is very good.
> >
> > I would store information about smoothness in edge
> rather then in 
> > face. It is logical. It gives you more freedom and
> it shouldn't be 
> > hard to implement (we have edge in mesh data
> structure).
> >
> > Jiri
> >
> >> Hi
> >> Just writing to say I think It would be best if
> the Autosmoothing was 
> >> stored in the material rather then in the Mesh.
> >> This means that objects could have different
> smoothing values without 
> >> being split up.
> >>
> >> (Fixing my OBJ importer and this works like OBJ's
> smoothing groups 
> >> that seem like a good idea to me.)
> >> Made Back compat by having an option in the
> materials (Mat OR Mesh 
> >> AutoSmooth)
> >>
> >> Also, I think it would be best if The Ambient
> colour was stored in 
> >> the Material rather then the World (Like in many
> other apps) - Gives 
> >> more controle,
> >> I made a Patch that impliments- Its possible to
> make it backwards 
> >> compatable by having a slider between World & MAt
> Ambient colours And 
> >> have it set to wrold be default.
> >>
> >> _ I can add both of these, and keep backwoulds
> compatable.
> >>
> >> - Cam
> >
> >
> >
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