Graphics

I'm not sure where I saw (heard about) it, but is it possible to link a quad to a material on the PC and outside of the material manager?

Nu

Follow up question, if I replace the 'Material Face' with an image file that resides on the PC, are there any problems associated with it that I should be aware of?

Nu

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As far as I'm aware, you need to have a material assigned, but you can change the image shader on that material. We do it here via scripting, specifically for elections. Each candidate has a photo on a drive in a specific location, saved as their last name as a .png. We then just use a script to grab their last name and add it to a filepath that will pull the picture and assign it to the shader.

dim pictag as xpTextObject

dim filepath as String

dim pic as xpBaseObject

dim picmat as xpMaterial

dim picshad as xpBaseShader

dim i as Integer

for i = 1 to 2

Self.GetObjectByName("Last " & i, pictag)

filepath="D:/!CURRENT/ELECTIONS/HEADSHOTS/" & pictag.Text & ".png" 'sets the filepath

Self.GetObjectByName("Pic " & i, pic) 'gets the quad object

pic.GetMaterial(0, picmat) 'gets the quad's material

picmat.GetShader(0, picshad) 'gets the quad's material's shader

picshad.SetFileName(filepath) 'sets the shader's filepath to the above filepath

next i

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It's possible to assign an image directly to quad without using a material by using the script function xpBaseObject.SetVolatileTextureFile. This function creates a temporary material in the background that automatically gets disposed of when no longer needed.

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Thank you Dan and Brian, that's what I was hoping to hear. Much appreciation!

Nu

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