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i need help with a little problem i have, in matrix 3d in darkbasic classic, how do i texture a matrix? like make a skin and put it on a matrix, im going to simulate three united states real world levels. new york city, the rocky mountains, and hollywood. my problem isnt making the land forms but i need to know how to put skins on matrixes.

thanks to anyone that helps

dustin pruente

look at help: prepare matrix texture command

..basicly you have to make your texture out of tilles and then put right texture tille on to right matrix tille

yeah but how do i do that? im not a good programmer and im new to dark basic

you have texture consisting of 4 tiles for example:

t1 | t2
-------
t3 | t4

1. make matrix 1,100,100,10,10
2. load image "yourtexture.bmp",1
3. prepare matrix texture 1,1,2,2
4. set matrix tile 1,4,6,3
5. update matrix 1

1. in firsth step you created martix number 1, 100 units wide and 100 units deep, consisting of 10 tiles in x axis and 10 tiles on z axis.

2. in this step you loaded image number 1 from file yourtexture.bmp which is texture you want to apply on matrix. This texture consist from 4 tiles as we sat at the begining.

3. in this step you sad to DB to use image num. 1 (your texture) as a texture for matrix num. 1 and split this image to 2*2 tiles = tiles num. 1,2,3,4 ...look at the schema at the begining.

4. now you sat to DB to take image tile num.3 and apply it on matrix tile 4,6 ...where 4 is tile position on x axis and 6 is its position on z axis.

5. now you finaly sat to DB to apply all the chances you made to display, so now they are wissible to you. You have to use this command afther any changes you make to matrix if you want that they are vissible.

Hope this helps...

yeah it does. that explains a lot. thanks