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From: "Michael Hough" <mhough@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: Assigning texture maps to 3D objects at runtime?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 03:49:56 -0800
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Michael Voegeli wrote in message <34E96F7C.3E149E37@access.ch>...

>Actually I would like to downloaded some TMD File with watever
>color, texture and shading and then change these during RUNTIME.
>
>Obvoiously this is not the standard way to go but it would allow great
>flexibility and reduce my download time.
>
>Any (secret) library functions available for manipulating 3d object data
>?
>Will I have to go down to the bits and bytes to code it one my own?


  There aren't any builtin functions, but the object format is pretty well
documented; it's in a PDF on the website somewhere.  There are quite a few
demos which manipulate 3d things on the fly--the SCEA 'survival' demo has a
libtmd.h and .c which I found helpful, and there's the SCEE 'maketmd' demo
which is also quite handy.  You can rip the data structures from one of
those, and it'll save you a lot of typing, at least.

mike