Hello,

I am making a tile-based map system and I wish to load images from files and mirror them as textures on several instances of my tile model using the same UV coordinates.

This is a 20x20 map with the same texture:

http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/52348/2008-03-09_225104.jpg

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

-Ed

From what I understand what your basically trying to do is take multiple textures/pictures and put them on the same surface at the same time. And beside writing a shader that does something similar to taking a source picture and emulating itself on the surface this is impossible. I believe as of A7 this is true as well.

In short, yes its possible, with a shader written for it. Long answer no its not really possible by the engine alone (last time I checked), but if you put effort into it you can do it no prob. Before you look into designing your own shader however look around for something that does this already, since taking one texture and relaying it on a .hmp terrain model and using another as a detail map is a definite possibility that I have seen done several times. Hopefully someone else can direct you more specifically.

P.S. Your link doesn't look

P.S.S. If your looking for a more specific answer, I suggest you elaborate, it may be me, since its late right now, but it didn't make complete sense to me to what you were asking.

I think what you want is to set skin = x for each tile on spawning it. You can create skins from external images prior to this, and that should get you any number of skins, with any tiles set to whichever works as you create the tiles on the client.

Don
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That's what I mean. Do you know specifically how I could do that?

You can set the current display skin of an entity by its skin parameter. entity.skin = 2; for example. But this requires that you have setup the entity skins before. I'm not sure if there is a engine function for that, but you can set the entity skins in MED.

What I'm looking for is to interpret a text file on level load, using a script. The text file would contain the coords of the tile and the name of the image it wants to use as the skin.

All I am looking for is the lines of code where you could take an external image file and apply it as a texture to entity being spawned.

Take a look at mystymoods for lite c. It loads ext textures for a terain.

Arrrgh I am using models not terrain. Models for tiles. Please read the thread and see what I am trying to achieve!

Edit:

To clarify:

The level is blank.
I load into it NxN blank tile models.
On loading the desired texture for the Nth tile is applied.

It is the process of taking a texture and applying it to the tile that I need help with, thank you.

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