Hello,

I am using a simple material effect that sets its emissive color according to the properties of the entity:



This also requires to set ENABLE_RENDER to on.

The material works just fine as long as it is used by only one entity.
However, if it is used by more than one entity, then all those entities share the same emissive color, although their red/green/blue properties are different.

Shouldnt this work properly with ENABLE_RENDER?



Thanks

In my understanding it should work with ENABLE_RENDER. But I just had a look in the manual about that and it says this:

This could mean that the event function is only called once for all entities just before rendering. But I am not sure. Especially because the way it was used to be was quite usefull.

What you could do would be to create a copy of the material for each entity or using entSkill41-44.

Thank you for your reply.
I was also confused by the different descriptions of ENABLE_RENDER in the english and the german manual:
The english version sais "the entity" while the german version sais "sämtliche...Entities/all...entities".

If I'm not mistaken entSkill41 respectivly vecSkill41 cant be used in material events?

Perhaps I should use a shader instead, as I need to shift the texture as well.

Ahh sorry I somehow thought that you are using a shader
And I meant vecSkill41 and not entSkill41 which does not exist...^^

I would recomment you to create a new material for each entity then (mtl_create).
For texture shifting you can set entity.u/v which is now meant to be used again, with A7.07

To be more specific about the shifting: I would like to shift the rgb texture and the alpha texture independently, so at least a FFE would be required for this.

Well, I'll use a shader then. In this case I probably would not need mtl_create.
Setting individual colors etc. in shaders worked fine for me up to now.


Thank you, Slin!:)