blender to irrlicht

hindupower · Post by **hindupower** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:15 am

blender has the capability of using all kind of texture maps like bump,normal, and translucency. is there a way to use translucency,specular and reflection maps in irrlicht and if so how? examples would be very helpful.

thanks

also this is my first post in this forum.

fireside · Post by **fireside** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:06 pm

I don't know much about this, but I'm interested to see the replies. The example per pixel lighting no.11 explains how normal maps are used.

hindupower · Post by **hindupower** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:46 pm

i am using this website for the kinds of maps. its very good:

http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/l ... leaf_1.asp

anyway im trying to make some maps and put it on an object and see if irrlicht loads the materials automatically.

If it doesnt i think you have to use node->getmaterial(material number), but i dont know what the material number is.

christianclavet · Post by **christianclavet** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:53 pm

I think most of theses could be used, but I think you will need to use or create shaders.

Normal maps and bumps maps (also Parallax maps) can be used already with the predefined surface. But you will not be able to use with them for example a Lightmap, or reflection map.

IRRLicht has some predefined surfaces but you can't mix them as you'd like. The best way to use them is to use shaders.

hindupower · Post by **hindupower** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:16 pm

are there other ways?

fireside · Post by **fireside** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 3:53 pm

Normal maps and bumps maps (also Parallax maps) can be used already with the predefined surface. But you will not be able to use with them for example a Lightmap, or reflection map.

Why not? What will happen if they are used together? Your saying we can't use the method in example 11 with a light map?

hindupower · Post by **hindupower** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:15 pm

i think you can but your not supposed to use "setMaterialType()" but instead getMaterial(number).texture[1]=some texture file. You would have to set up the materials in the modeler before you use this for this to work, but i dont know for sure.

Am i right?

kornwaretm · Post by **kornwaretm** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:27 am

acording to my experience

. i think that only can be done manualy in irrlicht by using tangent mesh.