Ok, just to save me alil time in testing and research. Could you help me fully realize what a brush actually is. I'm thinking it's more than a texture holder. Does it have it's own UVs you can plot or something? Isn't a brush adding a surface or something like that as well?
Brushes
Blitz3D Forums/Blitz3D Programming/Brushes A brush holds a collection of data applied to a surface/entity, including the texture
What data exactly? I hear people use brushes for blending on terrain systems. I see u have a terrains system in you sig so u know some stuff about it. Can u help me out?
What data exactly?
Use the B3d documentation and use the category section to find Brush.
You'll maybe not even need to use a brush in the entire time you use blitz3d. Only time i have used it, is to GET a texture from a surface.
ok, so basicly, if u had multiple surfaces, then u'll have to use a brush. That's what i'm gettin out of it.
Drey's confusion may come from the fact that some modelling progs create meshes by using 'brushes' (their term, bad term) which is not the same as a Blitz brush.
A brush can hold a lot of settings like multiple texture layers, color, alpha etc. It seems like Brushes are the "real texures" while Loadtexture and TextureEntity are dead end commands.
Example: if you want to save a Mesh with Textures (eg. the SaveB3D Example in the code archives), they need to use Brushes to allow to determine the used Texture Files etc.
An other example:
You can load a Mesh, check its brushes for a special Texture, and then replace this brush by an other brush that has a diffrent number of texture layers.
Example: if you want to save a Mesh with Textures (eg. the SaveB3D Example in the code archives), they need to use Brushes to allow to determine the used Texture Files etc.
An other example:
You can load a Mesh, check its brushes for a special Texture, and then replace this brush by an other brush that has a diffrent number of texture layers.