[Papervision3D] Procedurally generated models

[Pete Hobson]

Hi All,

As I dont have any 3d modeling experiance at all, right now im  
particularly interested  in procedurally generated models such as the  
PaperPlane example included in the last release.

I've made a little (very un-optimized) class which iterates over a  
bitmap, and creates colored cubes for each pixel, not useful in  
itself but cetainly good for understanding how models are represented  
in P3D.
demo - http://www.freesome.com/flobs/papervision3Dextrude1.swf
class - http://www.freesome.com/flobs/Sprite3D.as

  A couple of questions from this experiment...

1) Materials.  At the moment each pixel is represented by a cube with  
six materials (varying shades of the pixel color - until we have  
lights).  I store each of these generated materials, then have a  
method to push all these materials into the scene.  Question - would  
it make sense to add a "materials" array to DisplayObject3D which  
would automatically be added to the scene when the object is added?

2) Glitches.  At certain rotations the join marks of the individual  
cubes are visible - i'm guessing this is as im not sharing vertices  
between adjacent cubes - this is intentional as once we have child- 
objects i want to be able to manipulate each cube seperatly - is  
there any way round the glitch other than having a separate shared  
vertex version for when all cubes are in their default position?

Great stuff everyone - the most fun i've had alone in my office for  
years ;)


Pete



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