Moideling with TG 3 primatives

[bobbystahr]

Some time back, like when displace-able objects came about I did a 3 cube arch model and saved the .tgc. Well I came across it to-day and being bored I built this using only primitives. I added midway rings(squashed sphere) and bases for the pillars(octahedrons) and another cube for the walls. The side walls when rotated needed the texture also rotated 90 degrees...good thing I mostly texture with the Transform shader in the pipeline.
Should anyone want a copy of this say so here and I'll post a .tgc to file sharing.

[yossam]

Cool bobby...........

[bobbystahr]

Cool bobby...........

thanks man...the fruits of boredom....

[mhaze]

Clever - I can see uses for this...

[bobbystahr]

Clever - I can see uses for this...

Posting in File Sharing

[inkydigit]

That's really neat Bobby!
Flashes of inspiration come at the most mundane times sometimes!
This will have many uses for sure!
Cheers
Jason

[bobbystahr]

That's really neat Bobby!
Flashes of inspiration come at the most mundane times sometimes!
This will have many uses for sure!
Cheers
Jason

The best discovery was how to apply an image map to a cube properly in this situation. Tried it's U/V and had no luck till I realized I could use Y Planar, and then the realization I needed to rotate the texture as well as the wall. God Bless the Transform Shader...my new BFF.

[El Kabong]

Thanks for the example there Bobby. Guess I wasn't too far off trying to moidel (heh) with primitives. Think the object I was trying to build was a bit too complex for this approach, especially when I tried to reposition entire group of objects, so I abandon it in favor of LW3d Modeler.

While studying your .tgc, I noticed that the displacement looked odd. I changed the displacement from 2 to -2. See image for result.

Question, which may have been answered elsewhere, is the image file that is used on multiple objects loaded into memory x number of times, or is it loaded into memory once and referenced multiple times?

Later
Ron

[bobbystahr]

Question, which may have been answered elsewhere, is the image file that is used on multiple objects loaded into memory x number of times, or is it loaded into memory once and referenced multiple times?

Later
Ron

Cool Ron, I hadn't been paying attention to that aside from getting the tex correctly mapped.

Well I copied and pasted the cube multiple times so I'm assuming TG loads it to every iteration...I really can't recall the actual answer.

[Dune]

If you use a default shader calling the texture in each object it is indeed called X times, and heavy. But if you load it once and link that to each part, it's only loaded once.