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Turoid

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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 17:03

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is there a way to texture a matrix with one image that is streched over the whole matrix?

if I = 1 then I = 1 else I = 0

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spooky

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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 17:50

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You are the third person to ask this this week!

see here: http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=23807&b=1

Boo!

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Doremar

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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 18:04

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How about a harder question then? =)

I've heard people, on multiple occasions, say that matrixes are "slow" compared to memblocks and this statement always confuses me. I'm under the impression that a memblock is just a reserved portion of memory, and if you wanted you could easily write pretty much anything into that memory, including a matrix.
Can someone explain what makes a matrix "slow" and what my options are if I wanted something faster? If I write a matrix to a memblock does that make it not slow anymore?

Thanks in advance =)

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ReD_eYe

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Posted: 16th Jan 2004 18:08

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i think its the way they are drawn or possibly the way db handles them... there isn't a memblock to matrix command but you could write the data to a memblock if you wish. A memblock matrix is actually a mesh/3d object, but you can change it using memblocks. It also allows you to do things such as vertex lighting, which db matrices can't