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FuzzyFish
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Just a thought, but is it possible to create a flat-shaded model and define the colors of certain polygons during run-time?

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Sven B
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Posted: 7th Jun 2006 13:50
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I think it's possible to edit colors, but only when you have DBC Enhanced. (using memblocks)

I don't think you can create a flat-shaded model though.

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Posted: 7th Jun 2006 13:54
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you can assign colours to polygons using most modelling packages with ambient / diffuse / specular settings.
flat shading could be achieved for sure from a modelling package and code.

if you want to program this you will have to assign a colour to each polygon and create each polygon one at a time with code.
or write your own program that records what polys have what colour and through dynamic coding assign a texture map to each poly as its created, giving the effect of flat shaded with lines around the outside if you wanted that effect.

killing the smoothing groups on your models will help with a better looking flat shading etc..

DBC is a little more limited then pro but that wouldnt stop me and yes what i have mentioned above would be possible in both pro and classic.

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there is a way easyer way to do it, not sure it wil work though
make your own cube in a 3d modeler then texure it so each side takes one pixel (6 pixel texture). then when you want to change the collor just paint over the texture and update the model.

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Yeah the pixel texture method is not acceptable for what I want to do with this, that is keeping models under 20KB. And not using a single texture for the game, as I would be chaninging certain things dynamically. So it looks like memblocks would be the way to do it.

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