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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Is it possible to prevent DB pro automatic load textures when load .dbo or .x object?

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Kuper
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 10:17
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Hi!is it possible to prevent DB pro automatic load textures when load .dbo or .x object? i keep textures and models in one directory but i want to load and assign textures by myself. Thanks
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 10:36
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Well, don't assign them to the models in your 3d editor...

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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 10:38
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Any other way to do it?
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 11:12
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You could put the models and textures into separate folders.
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As far as I know .dbo stores the textures within the file... but .x you should have seperate files and the load object statement should have flag arameters... look at the command closely with F1

you then use LOAD TEXTURE to load the texture... again check the texture flags...

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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 12:39
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yes x and dbo files have info about assigned textures.i search help files for db pro and find nothing about my problem.Also when dbpro automatic load texture for model it loads it not as load image command with number 1-65000 it loads it with number -1,-2 and so on.
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I think you ignored my post ... when I load a .x it shows up all black... If this is not what you want... please make clear your issue... from what I see your talking about something different than just loading a texture...

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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 15:22
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He is talking about the fact that when you load a model, DBPro automatically: looks for, loads, then applies the textures which are referenced within the file. He is looking for a method of bypassing that feature.

Quote: "As far as I know .dbo stores the textures within the file"
Nope, .DBO's still use external texture files just as .X files do.

Quote: "load object statement should have flag arameters"
The only texture-related parameter which load object accepts is to lower the quality of auto-loaded textures.
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The only other way for removing the textures from a loaded dbo or x file is to re-texture the object using a NULL texture, ie TEXTURE OBJECT ObjID, 0

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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 17:32
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Yes, but I guess the point is that you don't want to waste loading time, and perhaps memory, by loading unwanted images behind the scenes.

Quote: "Also when dbpro automatic load texture for model it loads it not as load image command with number 1-65000 it loads it with number -1,-2 and so on."


Interesting. Does that mean you can access them in the usual way?
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Posted: 27th Jan 2012 22:48
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No, you can't access image ids with negative numbers.

Also, DBPro automatically dedupes the images it loads for objects - if the image has already been loaded with a negative image id, it won't be loaded a second time when loading another object.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2012 10:01
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So I get that the only way is keep model and texture files separately.
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Quote: "So I get that the only way is keep model and texture files separately."


I see at least 3 workable solutions in the post above? Here's a recap

1) Remove textures manually in a 3D Editor

2) Store textures at a different path to what the model expects

3) Re-texture the object after it has loaded with a null or blank texture.


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