How do I set a unique texture for each cloned 3D model in Director?

Question

Hi,
I am using a 3D world built from 3Ds Max, it contains 2 boxes, In Director I have set the boxes to move along a path and when out of camera shot the boxes are reset along the Z axis and a new texture if applied (generated via a text member), so far so good.
Now if the user clicks a button I would like to clone the boxes and have each box display its own texture from its own text member. At the moment the cloned boxed all use the texture from the last textured box, I assume this is an inheritance issue, but I do not know how to make each texture unique the its box.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Sherv.

Answer 1

Hello,
Im trying to make a number of boxes in a 3D world to move along the Z axis with a unique texture. The start just outside of the cameras field of view, move through the camera and when out of sight their position is moved back to the start with a new texture and the process repeats giving the  illusion of endless boxes. The problem I am having is with the unique textures, I would like to reuse the shaders but without resetting the world. Currently I get the following  message on line “ shad1 = w.newShader("shad1",#standard) “ :
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Below are snippets of the code for texturing the objects :
  w = member(MyCameraSetup)
  shad1 = w.newShader("shad1",#standard)
  case ANPRcountry of
    "UK" : tex1 = w.newTexture("tex1",#fromCastMember,member("ANPRtext"))
    "Saudi" : tex1 = w.newTexture("tex1",#fromCastMember,member("ANPRSaudi"))
  end case
  shad1.texture = tex1
  shad2 = w.newShader("shad2",#standard)
  case ANPRcountry of
    "UK" : tex2 = w.newTexture("tex2",#fromCastMember,member("ANPRtext2"))
    "Saudi" : tex2 = w.newTexture("tex2",#fromCastMember,member("ANPRSaudi2"))
  end case
  shad2.texture = tex2
  member(w).model(1).shader.texture = tex1
  w.model(1).shader = w.shader("shad1")
  member(w).texture("tex1").quality = #high
  member(w).model(1).shader.transparent = False
  w.shader("shad1").ambient = rgb(255,255,255)
  w.shader("shad1").diffuse = rgb(255,255,255)
  w.shader("shad1").emissive = rgb(0,0,0)
  w.shader("shad1").specular = rgb(0,0,0)
  -- setup the texture for far lane
  member(w).model(5).shader.texture = tex2
  w.model(2).shader = w.shader("shad2")
  member(w).texture("tex2").quality = #high
  member(w).model(5).shader.transparent = False
  w.shader("shad2").ambient = rgb(255,255,255)
  w.shader("shad2").diffuse = rgb(255,255,255)
  w.shader("shad2").emissive = rgb(0,0,0)
  w.shader("shad2").specular = rgb(0,0,0)
Any help you may provide will be gratefully received!
Many thanks.
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