Assign texture to material with no existing texture.

This topic has 3 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 3 years, 8 months ago by Yuri Kovelenov.

Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

Author

Posts
2020-09-07 at 1:09 pm #32534

KurtGR
Customer

Hi, I’m trying to create some logic which will allow me to switch between textures & RGB values for different materials – does this have something to do with the flexible texture input in the replace texture block? I’m not sure what the custom strings are.

Essentially I need to be able to switch between 6 different options for a material, 4 of them have texture maps, and 2 are simple RGB values (for optimisation, is this possible or do I need to create a 1x1px texture map?

Thanks!
Kurt.

2020-09-07 at 1:49 pm #32540

Yuri Kovelenov
Staff

Hi Kurt,

KurtGR wrote:

does this have something to do with the flexible texture input

nope this is for typing the name of the texture slot manually rather than selecting it from the drop-down. Useful when the texture slot name is saved in a variable.

KurtGR wrote:

6 different options for a material, 4 of them have texture maps, and 2 are simple RGB values

There can be various solutions:
– you can have 4 materials with textures and 2 materials without textures
and swap the material type when needed with puzzles
– you can create a material that mixes a texture node and a color node, and modify the mixing factor with puzzles
– yes, you can have only one material and swap textures, using a 1×1 pixel texture for colors

Chief 3D Verger | LinkedIn | Twitter

2020-09-07 at 1:52 pm #32542

KurtGR
Customer

Ok thanks, I think adding in 1×1 px textures will be the best solution for now.

Cheers Yuri.

2020-09-08 at 7:10 am #32569

Yuri Kovelenov
Staff

Chief 3D Verger | LinkedIn | Twitter
Author

Posts