Textures
Textures are used when the modeled object has a specific pattern on
its surface like wood or brick. Textures are bitmaps mapped to the
surface of the object. Texture of a specific material can be created by
taking a picture with digital camera or using a scanner and saving as a
bitmap file.
Textures for Mesh Entities can be imported or created via VRML, Wavefront .obj and possible via other formats. Please check the full list of supported formats for this version.
To create a texture manually via VRML use texCoord and texCoordIndex elements of IndexedFaceSet node.
See VRML 2.0 specifications at
https://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/vrml/vrml97/spec/ for details. Save the model
in .wrl format. Add the above texture elements. After loading the file it can be
saved as .mdg model with texture embedded for faster load.
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Textures are saved with the model. Note that textures can increase
size of the model dramatically, which can be an issue when models are
exchanged via the Internet or e-mail. Also note that textures are using significant amount of operating memory
and processing power. Material Editor is a preferred method of Assignment of textures
because it reuses the texture for all surfaces in the object.
Programmatically textures can be manipulated at run time using ITexture_DG
interface. See Texture Programming sample for an example.
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