[Papervision3D] double sided materials from collada file

[allan e]

Thanks for your prompt reply John!  Works beautifully.

Congratulations on pv3d! it's wicked!

Cheers,
Al

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 3:54 PM, John Grden <neoriley at gmail.com> wrote:

> you need to leave the file assigned to the 3d object in your 3D application
> and make sure you give it a name (the material that is)
>
> then, with your code, you're missing an argument with addMaterial:
>
> var matsList:MaterialsList = new MaterialsList();
> matsList.addMaterial(materialYouCreated,
> "nameOfMaterialFrom3DApplication");
>
> Then, DAE will see that you provided a material and will use that
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:37 PM, allan e <allanmon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I've finally got my collada model into papervision and it looks good.
>> It's just a simple polygon mesh.  The thing is, the texture works fine when
>> I embed it via collada.  But when i omit the texture in the 3d app, export
>> like that, then try to pass a material to the collada constructor in flash,
>> it won't work.
>>
>> It gives me:  Collada material  not found.
>>
>> Here's the just of the code:
>>
>>         protected function loadBitmap():void {
>>             material = new BitmapFileMaterial();
>>             material.addEventListener(FileLoadEvent.LOAD_COMPLETE,
>> handleFileLoaded);
>>             material.texture = "flower_text.jpg";
>>             material.oneSide = false;
>>             material.smooth = false;
>>
>>             list = new MaterialsList();
>>             list.addMaterial(material);
>>
>>         }
>>         protected function handleFileLoaded(e:FileLoadEvent):void {
>>             //init collada scaffold object
>>             for (var i:uint = 1; i<7; i++) {
>>                 this["test"+i] = new Collada("test.dae", list, 0.2);
>>                 this["test"+i].y = i*500;
>>                      scene.addChild(this["test"+i]);
>>             }
>>         }
>>
>>
>> Basically my issue is that I would like the polygon mesh/plane to have the
>> texture on both sides of it - it looks like it's culling.  I'd dont want to
>> have to make it closed as this will use more polygons.
>> I did see a post with a special doublesidedmaterial class, and I tried to
>> implement it with no avail.
>>
>> Can anyone give a simple code example of how to import a collada file and
>> assign it a double sided material / bitmap?
>>
>> Pretty pretty please?
>>
>> Cheers all,
>> Al
>>
>>
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