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Re: Max Script help
Many engines I know of rather prefer however single materials per mesh or even environment. Its way faster as you can batch render calls (less tetxture swaps or non ideally) but it might require sometimes a texture atlas. Its sloppy as a texture artist anyway to mix up different textures per model. The ideal workflow is… -
Max Script help
Hello, I've developed a very basic custom exporter for my 3D engine, that simply exports geometry, and also centers the object when it exports etc. However, there a few basic things I need to do, and I'm not sure how to go about them. I've had a gander through the MaxScript help, but can't find what I'm looking for,… -
Re: Max Script help
Max handles polygon specific material settings via MultiSub materials. Faces on the other hand can have material ID's (look in the editPoly or editMesh inspector for that). Those ID's are linked and make out the different materials per polygon. If you select faces in max and drag a material or texture to that face… -
Re: Max Script help
I still haven't worked out the most concise way of handling material names per polygon. For models which have multiple materials (just environments), I'd like to be able to simply assign polygons different materials, retrieve the material name to export, so my engine can assign the appropriate texture. The only thing I've… -
Re: Max Script help
Aha, render. I anticipated you'd reply ;) You see, not only do I not know much about how materials are handled in max, I don't even know how multi materials are handled in most 3D engines, it's not something I've ever investigated. In my engine, I have one material per object, and that's it. But now I'm making a game, I… -
Re: Max Script help
just start a project thread if you want a discussion -
Re: Max Script help
Easy fella, I'm trying to give you some advice. When it comes to performance, I know exactly what I'm talking about, my engine is faster than any other 3D engine in Flash. I'm a novice at modelling/level design but if anyone should be giving performance advice, it's me. You're wrong to think that a 2048 map is going to… -
Re: Max Script help
well do whatever you want, I don't care anymore at this point. -
Re: Max Script help
Render, with big polygons - one draw call on a 2048+ texture runs slower than a 512 texture with 100 draw calls ;) Well, in AS3 at least. On GPU platforms like Unity I have no idea. Up to 100 draw calls, the difference in performance is almost non existent. 500+ is where you start to see a very significant drop in… -
Re: Max Script help
then make it 2048, my point is don't waste performance on multiple textures! It also comes down to your skills as a texture artist- like sometimes its better to set a omni directional or just directional top light, so that all casted shadows on the track are turn symmetrical on the x/y axis. That way you can mirror or turn…
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