I recently tried using portalib, and after compiling the modeling example, I managed to get a model to start loading but I always get a "couldnt load textures" error. Help!! This seems like a great library, so thanks to the creator, however I''m not getting very far when I can''t use it! Thanks, Dachande

Problem fixed, my bad.

Thanks dachande

You can find more info at http://rsn.gamedev.net, and I''m happy to help out with questions you have.

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Brett Porter
PortaLib3D : A portable 3D game/demo libary for OpenGL

thanks, I do have one question....

Are there any tutorials for ProtaLib out there? The examples are good but I can see a whole lot more potential in that library just ready to be unlocked A nice guide to point us in the right direction would be wonderful.

And a second question:
How can you select which animation you wish to play? The example just plays a default animation as your well aware.. I would love to have a few examples to show me what the animating can really do

Thanks for your time,

Dachande

hmm okay, and ANOTHER thing...

How does a person load in a PNG image as a texture, ready to paste on some polygons? Using portaLib/libPng that is!

Just a quick tutorial giving brief explanations of the different sections of PortaLib, would be lovely =)

Thanks,

Dachande

Ah, if I had the time...
I used to have more tutorials but I thoguht they were a bit too simple. For example, the Fractal Terrain shows how to use the texture mapping (craete a new texture object, then call ->bind(); before using it)

I''m not sure what you are looking for in terms of animating... Milkshape only provides one animation per file, that''s the reason for it. I''m currently looking at extending this, but soooo busy... (sorry!)

Thanks for your feedback - very much appreciated and taken into account...


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PortaLib3D : A portable 3D game/demo libary for OpenGL

Oh crap, sorry, I screwed up again!!!

Last time I used MilkShape it was for Genesis3d, wich had multiple animations per file... Doh, my mistake.

I guess, I'll have to see if theres a function to start the anim at x frame and end at y frame, and just cram lots of anims in one big line

I've tried adding PNG textures to the model viewer example... I created a load of quads to stick them on to... then called something like:

private:
//TEXTURES
OpenGLTexture2D *Background[1];

then in the constructor:
Background[0] = new OpenGLTexture2D( "data/heart.png", Texture2D:NG, false );

Then after glbegin(GL_QUADS).. :
Background[0]->bind();

but the program just quits I think it might be generateTExture that screws up as when I call it manually, a message pops up telling me a texture name could not be made, or something similar..

Do you know what I'm doing wrong ?

But again, congrats on a fine piece of programming, it's well put together, and is a wonderful learning tool at the least, to discover how to acheive animation and what not.

g'bye,

Dachande

Edited by - dachande on August 9, 2001 11:59:37 AM

Are you executing in a place where data/heart.png makes sense?
Often you will beuild to a Debug subdirectory, so data/heart.png is in the wrong place.
In Project -> Settings, change the run directory on the debug tab (assuming VC++).

also, you need to bind outside of glBegin/glEnd.

HTH!

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Brett Porter
PortaLib3D : A portable 3D game/demo libary for OpenGL