[X3D-Public] Multiple Materials for Geometry (IndexedFaceSet)

[Campbell Barton]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Michalis Kamburelis
<michalis.kambi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Hi, I'm currently making some updates to blender 2.5'x X3D exporter,
>> since we have a diligent user reporting all sorts of bugs.
>>
>> One problem I've hit is that it seems there is no way to have
>> different materials for one mesh.
>>
>
> Like others said: your only choice is to split a single Blender mesh
> into multiple IndexedFaceSet nodes, one IndexedFaceSet for each
> Appearance (material, texture settings). This is a limitation of
> VRML/X3D, but it also allows for easier and faster rendering.
>
> I just wanted add that Blender's VRML 97 exporter, that I'm using for
> years, already does such splitting, and it works mighty fine in my
> experience :)
>
> Michalis

Thanks for the advice, added Multiple Material/Images support to
Blender 2.5's X3D exporter svn r34100.
http://blender.markmail.org/thread/qpuor3vuliivgvir

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- Campbell