Texturing Worlds

[BiggerStaff]

Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question, but how do you load texturing information for worlds (ie terrain, levels etc) into Irrlicht?

I've made some stuff in maya, and happily loaded the .obj into Irrlicht, but what's the best way go about texturing it? (as objectfiles only contain geometry, it comes out grey). How was that pretty town in the screenshots made?

Irrlicht is great to use btw - keep it up!

Cheers

[Xception]

If you use 3ds files then the textures are loaded and applied automatically if they are in the same directory.

[zzino]

I was trying to do same thing but....I could not fugure it out yet.

Please help!!

[Caecus]

From my understanding of the .obj format (I've never used them), it probably works like an md2 instead of a 3ds. Like in the HelloWorld example you have to load/apply the texture in the code, as follows:

scene::IAnimatedMesh* mesh = smgr->getMesh("mymodel.obj");
scene::IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* node = smgr->addAnimatedMeshSceneNode( mesh );
node->setMaterialTexture(0, driver->getTexture("mytexture.bmp");

[zzino]

I know how to load 1 texture...on 1 object.

If I have a levelmesh in .obj format.
We may need more than 1 texture for floor, door, windows,wall....hallway...etc

Should I separate each object to different file and load one by one??