Model Color

[curtis]

I used milkshape, and set colors for my model, then i exported it to 3ds, just to make sure everything look right i check it out in gmax, it looked good with the colors right and everything. Is there anything in irrlicht I can do to make the colors show up on the model, I mean... Do you have to use skins on all the models...?

[curtis_not_logged_in]

I really need some help with this...

[cartoonit]

So the colours are not showing up on the model?? Have you tried:

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node->setMaterialFlag(EMF_LIGHTING, false);

[Guest]

yes it still doesn't appear

[curtis_not_logged_in]

any help

[AlexL]

I don't know to much about modeling, but here's what I think may be the problem. Curtis is setting the meshes colour in Milkshape, like you'd do in 3DSMax, to be able to tell one part of the mesh diferant then the other while in flat or gourad shaded mode. To my knowledge, when you export the mesh from what ever program your using, the colours of the mesh inside the editor are not exported with. So I'm thinking the answer is yes, you must have a skin in order to show the colours. But I don't know for a fact

[Bryan Abrams]

just take a 1x1 bitmap of the color you want and set that instead of the color thing.

[Guest]

From the API doc:

SColor irr::video::SMaterial::AmbientColor
SColor irr::video::SMaterial::DiffuseColor
SColor irr::video::SMaterial::EmissiveColor

If you set these properties for the material you applied, Irrlicht should honour them (on paper at least - I haven't tried it).

[eXodus]

just take a 1x1 bitmap of the color you want and set that instead of the color thing.

Wouldn't doing so make the texture repeats itself gazilions of time? I guess it would be better to use a 64px one when following this strategy.

[Bryan Abrams]

as long as it doesn't go outside 1.0 or 0.0 in the uv coords, then no, it wont.