How do i texture each side on a cube ?

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Lryd

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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 05:28

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Hello!

im making a rotating cube, and í would like to
use different textures on each side of the cube, but
i havent figured out how to do it.
would preciate if some one could tell me how to do it, cause as it is now i can only texture the whole cube with one texture.

thanks for help

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Pricey

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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 05:32

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You would have to use Memblocks but I'm no expert on that

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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 05:44

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You would have to either make each side a limb (with memblocks) or make the cube out of 6 plains (much easier).

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Lryd

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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 05:51

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okey
can some one plz show me how to do, cause im not
getting anywhere.
thanks guys.

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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 22:21 Edited at: 25th Jan 2005 22:22

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you should ask freddix but I can give you a link if you just hold on. (must find freddix homepage

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edit:

okay I just found out this is dbc code...
http://cordierfr.free.fr/html/sourcecode/multi-texturage(freddix).zip

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Posted: 29th Jan 2005 22:03

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you could try Lithunwrap

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Joegio13

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i have the same problem. the way i fixed the problem was w3itht he 6 plain method. heres the code.

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      FOR t = 1 TO 6
         TempWall(t) = 900 + t
         MAKE OBJECT PLAIN TempWall(t),pw#,ph#
         REM **** MAKE 4 WALLS ****
         IF t <= 4
            py# = wrapvalue(py#+90)
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
         ELSE
         REM **** MAKE FLOOR & CEILING ****
            IF FirstTime = 0
               px# = wrapvalue(90)
               FirstTime = 1
            ELSE
               px# = wrapvalue(px# + 180)
            ENDIF
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
            ZROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),270
         ENDIF

         TEXTURE OBJECT TempWall(t), imbd(t)

         REM **** MAKE STATIC OBJECTS ****
         REM MAKE STATIC OBJECT TempWall(t)
         REM DELETE OBJECT TempWall(t)
      NEXT t

hope that helps, this was the first code i ever wrote. it works, but mayge a little sloppy.

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Posted: 30th Jan 2005 02:08

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after looking at the code, i realize it needs comments. I used a for..loop to make my walls. here is the code commented.

DIM TempWall(6)
      DIM imbd(6)
      pw# = 1000
      ph# = 1000
      px# = 0
      py# = 0
      pz# = 0
      FOR a = 1 to 6
         imbd(a) = 700 + a
      NEXT a
      ims# = 50

LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_x1.bmp", imbd(1),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_z2.bmp", imbd(2),1
      LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_x3.bmp", imbd(3),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_z4.bmp", imbd(4),1
      LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_y5.bmp", imbd(5),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_y6.bmp", imbd(6),1

FOR t = 1 TO 6
         rem this code is giving the variable that will be used as the plains number
         rem all my walls will be in the 900s
         TempWall(t) = 900 + t
         rem this makes the walls
         MAKE OBJECT PLAIN TempWall(t), pw#, ph#
         REM **** PLACE THE 4 WALLS ****
         IF t <= 4
            REM THIS CODE ROTATES THE WALLS
            REM py# IS THE Y COORDINATE FOR THE ROTATION OF THE WALLS
            py# = wrapvalue(py#+90)
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            REM THIS PLACES THE WALLS EXACTLY AT HALF OF THE WIDTH OF
            REM ITS OWN WALL
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
         ELSE
         REM **** MAKE FLOOR & CEILING ****
         REM SO ONCE t HITS 5 THE CODE ROTATES THE PLAINS ON THERE x AXIS
         IF FirstTime = 0
               px# = wrapvalue(90)
               FirstTime = 1
            ELSE
               px# = wrapvalue(px# + 180)
            ENDIF
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
            ZROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),270
         ENDIF
         REM BY MAKING BOTH THE IMAGE AND PLAINS WALLS ARRAYS
         REM YOU CAN TEXTURE ALL THE WALLS IN ONE LINE OF CODE
         TEXTURE OBJECT TempWall(t), imbd(t)
      NEXT t

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      DIM TempWall(6)
      DIM imbd(6)
      pw# = 1000
      ph# = 1000
      px# = 0
      py# = 0
      pz# = 0
      FOR a = 1 to 6
         imbd(a) = 700 + a
      NEXT a
      ims# = 50

      LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_x1.bmp", imbd(1),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_z2.bmp", imbd(2),1
      LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_x3.bmp", imbd(3),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_z4.bmp", imbd(4),1
      LOAD IMAGE "Pics\neg_y5.bmp", imbd(5),1;LOAD IMAGE "Pics\pos_y6.bmp", imbd(6),1

      FOR t = 1 TO 6
         rem this code is giving the variable that will be used as the plains number
         rem all my walls will be in the 900s
         TempWall(t) = 900 + t
         rem this makes the walls
         MAKE OBJECT PLAIN TempWall(t), pw#, ph#
         REM **** PLACE THE 4 WALLS ****
         IF t <= 4
            REM THIS CODE ROTATES THE WALLS
            REM py# IS THE Y COORDINATE FOR THE ROTATION OF THE WALLS
            py# = wrapvalue(py#+90)
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            REM THIS PLACES THE WALLS EXACTLY AT HALF OF THE WIDTH OF
            REM ITS OWN WALL
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
         ELSE
         REM **** MAKE FLOOR & CEILING ****
         REM SO ONCE t HITS 5 THE CODE ROTATES THE PLAINS ON THERE x AXIS
         IF FirstTime = 0
               px# = wrapvalue(90)
               FirstTime = 1
            ELSE
               px# = wrapvalue(px# + 180)
            ENDIF
            ROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),px#,py#,pz#
            MOVE OBJECT TempWall(t), pw#/2
            ZROTATE OBJECT TempWall(t),270
         ENDIF
         REM BY MAKING BOTH THE IMAGE AND PLAINS WALLS ARRAYS
         REM YOU CAN TEXTURE ALL THE WALLS IN ONE LINE OF CODE
         TEXTURE OBJECT TempWall(t), imbd(t)
      NEXT t

hope that helps, and doesnt confuse you. if it does u can just straight copy it and paste it into your source. and just change what is needed.

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Ric

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Posted: 30th Jan 2005 09:06

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Unless you never want to progress beyond cubes, spheres and cones, you should try using a 3d modelling program. There are free ones, cheap ones, and expensive ones, but all of them will let you texture one side of a cube with a single click of the mouse.

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Lryd

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Posted: 28th Feb 2005 00:49

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thx for the help!

you know before you buy expensive stuff, you try to pick your project down i parts and study the parts, then you learned the technique, to solve the first part, then you get a good application. Im just trying to solve alot of parts, then i set it up to an game, but meanwhile i use spheres and cubes!

thx for the code!

it was really helpful.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2005 07:03

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Made this last summer for someone.

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make_cube(1, 100)
texture_cube(1,2,7)
texture_cube(1,3,13)
texture_cube(1,5,2)



function make_cube(obj, size#)
  make object plain obj, size#, size#
  size# = size#/2
  make mesh from object 1, obj
  offset limb obj, 0, 0, 0,-size#

  add limb obj,1,1
  add limb obj,2,1
  add limb obj,3,1
  add limb obj,4,1
  add limb obj,5,1

  offset limb obj, 1, 0, size#, 0
  rotate limb obj, 1, 90, 0, 0

  offset limb obj, 2, 0, 0, size#
  rotate limb obj, 2, 0, 180, 0

  offset limb obj, 3, 0, -size#, 0
  rotate limb obj, 3, 270, 0, 0

  offset limb obj, 4, -size#, 0, 0
  rotate limb obj, 4, 0, 270, 0

  offset limb obj, 5, size#, 0, 0
  rotate limb obj, 5, 0, 90, 0

  set object cull obj, 0
endfunction



function texture_cube(obj, side, img)
  side = side - 1
  texture limb obj, side, img
endfunction

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Foxy

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Posted: 28th Feb 2005 17:57

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I'll texture a cube for you instead. Send me the pics you want on each side and I'll do it in lithunwrap.

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There's a few tutorials on the TGC Main site. The boxes one or something. I'm not entirely sure how it works myself, but you use boxes, rather than a cube command. Then you can just apply a texture to individual boxes...I think. >.>

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