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Mickm
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Posted: 6th Jul 2006 21:35
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Is it possible to create 1 box and have all the sides a different texture? Or will I need to create multiple boxes and "glue" them together?



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Richard Davey
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Posted: 6th Jul 2006 21:42
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You can either:

1) Model a box in a 3D package (shouldn't be too hard!!!), unwrap it, apply your textures and voila. One single box, each face unique.

Or

2) Create a box shape by creating 6 plains, rotated and positioned correctly (around a central point.. perhaps make them limbs of a hidden object), and texture each plain.

Depends if you need to do this during the execution of your program or not as to which choice you make. Personally I'd go for the first option, unless I was mapping something unique onto each face of the cube (which I've done before), in which case option 2 works great.

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Mickm
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Posted: 6th Jul 2006 22:07
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I think ill have to go with #2.
The main purpose is going to be 3d Cards.

Each has the same back/sides/top/bottom (changable) but of course the front will change from card to card.

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Dream And Death
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Posted: 6th Jul 2006 23:14
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Why not make two objects?

One, a slim 3D box as your card, and the second, a plain face of the card, which you can then change from card to card.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 6th Jul 2006 23:22
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You can use memblocks and pre-create a texture with the six textures on, which you would align correctly using UV.

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Pincho Paxton
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You should really make a model of a card in a 3D package because you can have rounded edges, and it will look much better. Then texture the front, and back seperately. In fact it would only take half an hour to make it...if that.

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spooky
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Posted: 7th Jul 2006 00:31
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Take a look here;

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=83166&b=1

3 different methods.

1. single image split into 6 faces using vertex commands
2. 6 plains joined together as limbs to build an object
3. A .x model

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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 8th Jul 2006 21:30 Edited at: 8th Jul 2006 21:30
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I made a function that merges many objects into one. See Merge Object in this post: Click to see functions!
It may be of help...

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