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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Vertexes?

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Shady 2005 Simpson
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Posted: 12th Nov 2003 19:47
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Hi,
I have no clue what vertexes are, or how they're used, I was wondering if anyone could explain this to me or give me a link to something.

Thanx for any help.

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Shady 2005 Simpson
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Posted: 13th Nov 2003 23:33
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anyone?

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Rob K
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Posted: 13th Nov 2003 23:40
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All 3D models (referred to as OBJECTs by DarkBASIC) are made up of lots of triangles joined together. For example, a plane object is made up of two triangles joined together to make a square.

These triangles are composed of 3 vertexes (or verticies). Verticies are the points in 3D space which are joined together to make the triangle. Each vertex in a 3D world has an X, Y and Z coordinate, as opposed to 2D, where points only have X and Y coordinates.

Verticies can also have other properties such as color (or "diffuse"), alpha (transparency), shinyness (specular) and texture coordinates to tell DarkBASIC how the texture should be applied to the object and so on.

By using the memblocks commands, you can create custom 3D objects in code by specifying where the verticies are that make up the polygons (triangles) which make up the 3D model.


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Shady 2005 Simpson
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 00:01
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Thanks Rob, Do you know of anything that will help me to use them in DarkBASIC, tutorials etc.

Thanx.

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Rob K
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Posted: 14th Nov 2003 00:31
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Search the codebase for "memblocks" I posted a couple of tutorial / example snippets there.


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Shady 2005 Simpson
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Posted: 15th Nov 2003 19:50
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@Rob:
Great, thanks, I'll have a little play with that.

@everyone who knows about vertexes (or vertices):
Anything else would be appreciated,

Thanx.

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