Post by ascotti on Dec 27, 2018 17:03:14 GMT
I've made it to the Groups chapter and playing a bit with the hexagon.
It all worked fine until I tried to use patterns that are based on space coordinates, e.g. like if I want the hexagon to be carved out a single block of wood or marble.
With the standard worldToObject, each shape in the group has its own independent replica of the pattern, which works ok except in the case stated above. After some fiddling I managed to get the effect I wanted by skipping all "intermediate" parents and using only the last one, i.e. the top group.
But I need two versions of worldToObject and I am not sure at all if this is a good approach... is it viable? If so, what kind of object "property" would I declare?
Some pictures to show the case.
Standard worldToObject: each component looks identical (e.g. see pattern repeating over the cylinders).
Alternate worldToObject: it returns the transformation of the last parent only. The pattern is now consistent over the entire group.
Transformations (e.g. a rotation here) are followed correctly:
It all worked fine until I tried to use patterns that are based on space coordinates, e.g. like if I want the hexagon to be carved out a single block of wood or marble.
With the standard worldToObject, each shape in the group has its own independent replica of the pattern, which works ok except in the case stated above. After some fiddling I managed to get the effect I wanted by skipping all "intermediate" parents and using only the last one, i.e. the top group.
But I need two versions of worldToObject and I am not sure at all if this is a good approach... is it viable? If so, what kind of object "property" would I declare?
Some pictures to show the case.
Standard worldToObject: each component looks identical (e.g. see pattern repeating over the cylinders).
Alternate worldToObject: it returns the transformation of the last parent only. The pattern is now consistent over the entire group.
Transformations (e.g. a rotation here) are followed correctly:
