Create a room with bottom texture different?

Hi, I'm trying to make a room out of just a cube, I use the flipMesh code to make it my room. How do I Make the walls and ceiling a stone texture, and then have the ground a wood texture.

Here is the code I use to make the room...
room=CreateCube()
FitMesh room,-250,0,-250,500,500,500
FlipMesh room
tex=LoadTexture("wall.jpg")
ScaleTexture tex, 0.5, 0.5
EntityTexture room,tex
EntityFX room,1

In the code, I've loaded the texture for the walla but not for the ground. How would I use both Textures?

Thanks for the help!

You'll need to either:

- Build your own cube making the bottom a separate surface so that you can texture it with a separate texture.

or

- Combine your ground and wall textures into a single texture and then alter the UV coords so that the walls map to the wall portion of the texture, and the ground maps to the ground portion.

How would I combine the Textures then alter the UV coords?

Combine the textures in a painting program.
For an example on how to alter the UV coords, look up the "createskybox" function in the "castle" sample in Blitz. It uses that technique.

You sure can work with UV Coords and a single texture and you also will learn a lot in this area. As a simple solution you could also use more primitives for the room. Example given one additional cube as the floor.

room=CreateCube()
FitMesh room,-250,0,-250,500,500,500
FlipMesh room
tex=LoadTexture("wall.jpg")
ScaleTexture tex, 0.5, 0.5
EntityTexture room,tex

floor=CreateCube()
FitMesh floor,-250,-1,-250,500,2,500
tex2=LoadTexture("ground.jpg")
ScaleTexture tex2, 0.5, 0.5
EntityTexture floor,tex2

If you really want to use more than one texture on a single mesh, then you need more than one surface with this mesh. Triangles are assigned to surfaces. Meshes are built this way:

-Create a mesh (still empty, only a handle)
-create and assign a surface to the mesh
-assign texture (in fact: brush) to this surface
-assign Vertices and Triangles to this surface
-Create and apply more surfaces, each with it's own triangles
...

So adding a new texture to the floor of a flipped box means: rebuild the box, but this time use two surfaces. A bit complicated for what you want. Personally I would build this in a modeler and load it in Blitz, as an extended primitive so to say.

BTW: using too much surfaces can slow down the machine, so big10p has a good point with the single surface suggestion.

Understanding the mesh structure may however be useful.

This should work for you ..

Graphics3D  1024,768,32,1

Global light = CreateLight()
Global camera = CreateCamera()
Global room = CreateRoom()


;use this to test without media
;brush1 = CreateBrush( 255,0,0 ) 
;brush2 = CreateBrush( 0,0,255 )

brush1 = CreateBrush()
brush2 = CreateBrush()
tex1 = LoadTexture("floor.jpg")
tex2 = LoadTexture("wall.jpg")
ScaleTexture tex2, .5, .5
BrushTexture brush1, tex1
BrushTexture brush2, tex2 

PaintSurface GetSurface( room, 1 ) , brush1
PaintSurface GetSurface( room, 2 ) , brush2
EntityFX room,4

PositionEntity camera, 0,750,-250
PointEntity camera, room

While Not KeyHit(1)

	TurnEntity room, 0, 1, 0

	RenderWorld()
	
	Color 255,255,255
	Text 0,0,"Surfaces: "+CountSurfaces( room )
	
	Flip

Wend

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Function CreateRoom( Width# = 500 , Height# = 500 , Depth# = 500 )

	;create temporary cube mesh
	tmp = CreateCube()
	FitMesh tmp,-Width*.5 , 0 , -Depth*.5 , Width , Height , Depth
	FlipMesh tmp
	s = GetSurface( tmp, 1 )

	;create room mesh + 2 surfaces
	mesh = CreateMesh()
	ns1 = CreateSurface( mesh )
	ns2 = CreateSurface( mesh )
	
	For t = 0 To CountTriangles( s )-1
		
		v0 = TriangleVertex( s , t , 0 )
		v1 = TriangleVertex( s , t , 1 )
		v2 = TriangleVertex( s , t , 2 )
		
		;if the normal is > 0 it's the floor
		If VertexNY( s , v0 ) > 0
			ns = ns1
		Else
			ns = ns2
		EndIf

		;add vertices		
		Nv0 = AddVertex( ns , VertexX( s , v0 ) , VertexY( s, v0 ) , VertexZ( s, v0 ) , VertexU( s , v0 ) , VertexV( s, v0 ) )
		Nv1 = AddVertex( ns , VertexX( s , v1 ) , VertexY( s, v1 ) , VertexZ( s, v1 ) , VertexU( s , v1 ) , VertexV( s, v1 ) )
		Nv2 = AddVertex( ns , VertexX( s , v2 ) , VertexY( s, v2 ) , VertexZ( s, v2 ) , VertexU( s , v2 ) , VertexV( s, v2 ) )
		;copy normals
		VertexNormal ns , Nv0 , VertexNX( s, v0 ) , VertexNY( s, v0 ) , VertexNZ( s, v0 )
		VertexNormal ns , Nv1 , VertexNX( s, v1 ) , VertexNY( s, v1 ) , VertexNZ( s, v1 )
		VertexNormal ns , Nv2 , VertexNX( s, v2 ) , VertexNY( s, v2 ) , VertexNZ( s, v2 )
		;add triangle
		AddTriangle ns, Nv0, Nv1, Nv2
		
	Next
	
	;free tmp mesh as we don't need it
	FreeEntity tmp

	;return new 2 surface mesh
	Return mesh
	
End Function