Multisurface

Hi,

Im having a samll issue, I want to take several entities that use the same texture, save them all together as one B3D, then when I load the B3D I want all the entities that were added to this mesh to have thier own surface..

I can export the B3D comprised of several entities, ive tried addmesh and my own Add_surface command before export.. but it seems nomatter what, Blitz wont allow same texture surfaces to load without combining them. So what was originally a 8 surface entity, using same texture on 5 of the surfaces.. gets loaded as a 2 surface entity.


Any advice or assistance is appreciated.

Surfaces with the same properties are combined. (color, alpha, texture, shininess etc). Now this should in any right thinking universe be an optional optimisation, however..

I guess you could say have each surface a different color then set them back to the same color after loading by use of getsurfacebrush and paintsurface. I have not tried this myself though, so although I think it should work, there may be issues in certain circumstances.

Alternatively just use your own B3d loader.

that did the trick, thanks!!