Material
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A material is used in a BZFlag world to define a new look for otherwise regular objects, such as meshboxes.
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[edit] Code
To put a material in your map, first it must be defined:
material name example_material texture filename addtexture filename notextures notexcolor notexalpha texmat -1 dyncol -1 ambient 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 diffuse 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 color 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 specular 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 emission 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 shininess 0.0 resetmat spheremap noradar noshadow noculling nosorting nolighting alphathresh 0.0 groupalpha occluder end |
Valid parameters for a Material are:
| name | name for reference |
| texture | set the texture (must be .png but don't include the extension unless on the Internet) |
| addtexture | add a texture (again, no extension is needed) |
| notextures | don't use textures. |
| notexcolor | don't apply the color to the texture |
| notexalpha | don't use the texture's alpha channel |
| texmat | specify a texture matrix. -1 for no texture matrix. (addtexture must be used before texmat) |
| dyncol | specify a dynamic color. -1 for no dynamic color. |
| ambient | ambient color |
| diffuse | diffuse (main)color |
| color | synonym for diffuse |
| specular | specular color |
| emission | emission color |
| shininess | shiny! |
| resetmat | restore default values |
| spheremap | use spherical texture coordinate mapping |
| noradar | do not display on radar (except normal mode) |
| noshadow | do not render shadows |
| noculling | do not cull by face winding (double-sided) |
| nosorting | do not do front-to-back alpha sorting |
| nolighting | disable lighting |
| alphathresh | alpha thresholding value |
| groupalpha | sort translucent faces as a group |
| occluder | faces with this material will occlude |
To actually apply a material, you must use some sort of reference in an object, like so:
meshbox position 0 0 10 rotation 0 size 10 10 5 matref example_material end |
[edit] Transparency
The transparency effect is created by setting the alpha component of a material's color to a value less than one. Transparent objects should be sparingly, because everything behind them must always be rendered. In addition, very large transparent objects may be sorted and drawn in the wrong order. This is caused by the fact that the Z-buffer cannot be used because it would allow another transparent object to cover the transparent object, which would not look right. Thus, the transparent elements are instead sorted by determining the distance to a point in the center, which works well as long as there are not too many large transparent objects. The same applies to textures that have transparent sections.
[edit] Magic Material Names
[edit] General
GroundMaterial
WaterMaterial
LinkMaterial For Teleporter
TeleFrame For Teleporter Frame (BZFlag version 3.0)
[edit] Skybox
LeftSkyboxMaterial
RightSkyboxMaterial
FrontSkyboxMaterial
BackSkyboxMaterial
TopSkyboxMaterial
BottomSkyboxMaterial
[edit] History
Materials were added in BZFlag 2.0.0.
[edit] Editor Support
Materials are supported in Blender with BZWTools, pyBZEdit, and Wings3D with the BZW Exporter for Wings3D. Materials are NOT supported in BZEdit or BZFed.
[edit] A note about textures
A material can be composed of colors and textures. Textures are .png files that are either in the client directory or on the Internet. The terms material and texture are often confused and misunderstood, so bear the above in mind.
