Thank you Jan for your reply.
So I assume that there is no way to programmatically apply a material in a
.mat file to an object when writing out a 3ds file. The only way you can
apply a material in a .mat file to an object would be to do it in 3ds Max.
Am I correct?
Thanks very much!
Adrian
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Kyprianidis, Jan Eric <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi,
> the 3ds file format only allows to specify images for texture maps (and
> SXP plugins).
> Jan Eric
>
>
> Adrian Bedeau wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I have a 3dsMax material library file (.mat file) "gems.mat" which
> > contains materials named "diamond," "gold," etc. I am using lib3ds to
> > create a cube and would like to map the material "diamond" onto the
> > faces of my cube. I have tried doing
> >
> > strcpy(material->texture1_map.name <http://texture1_map.name>,
> "diamond");
> >
> > and set Lib3dsFace.material field to the index of "material" for the
> > faces of my cube. I then added the directory containing "gems.mat" to
> > the user path for external files in 3ds Max. However when I render my
> > object, I do not see the diamond mapped on to the faces. This makes me
> > wonder if it is possible to set texture map name to a material in .mat
> > file using lib3ds, or I can only set texture map name to an image file
> > which is not contained in a .mat file? If anyone knows about this,
> > will you please enlighten me?
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > Adrian
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