[Papervision3D] Max3DS parser broken? - can't get materials

[andysk8er]

Okay, after more investigation, here is what I've found:

You can create a materialsList with the names of materials in the 3DS model
and send the materialslist to the model in the constructor as follows:

fmat = new ColorMaterial(0x0000ff); 
fmat2 = new ColorMaterial(0xffff00);
matList =  new MaterialsList();
matList.addMaterial(fmat, "redmaterial"); //redmaterial is the material name
in my 3DS file
matList.addMaterial(fmat2, "blackmaterial"); //blackmaterial is the material
name in my 3DS file
shape = new Max3DS();
shape.load("models/wagon4.3DS", matList); 
holder.addChild(shape);		

This correctly assigns the colormaterials and I can trace the material data
with this:
trace(shape.materials.toString()); //THIS WORKS!

or this:
trace(shape.materials.numMaterials);	

So, here are my questions:

1) If I load my model without a materialslist as follows:
shape.load("models/wagon4.3DS");
...then my traces (see above) don't work. I get no materials tracing and the
numMaterials returns zero.

WTF? Shouldn't I be able to see the materials without assigning a
materialslist? It displays the wireframe, so why doesn't it return wireframe
materials? Is this a bug in the parser? 

Speaking of bugs in the parser, why can't I assign a FlatShadeMaterial to
the Max3DS materials list? It throws a bunch of errors when I do this. It
has no trouble with ColorMaterials. 

Tim, do you have any insight on this? I know you ported this parser from
Away3D.

Thanks,
Andy

	



andysk8er wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> Is anyone successfully using the Max3DS parser? I can't get my model
> materials from it and I think it is a problem in the class itself. If I
> add a trace inside the Max3DS class, it traces my materials, but if I try
> to use ANY of the inherited functions (like materialsList() or
> materials.toString() ) from another class, I get an empty materialsList. 
> 
> If anyone has done this successfully, please let me know what the code is.
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 

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