Re: vertex materials?

James Waldrop (sulam@construct.net)
Wed, 06 Dec 1995 11:42:50 -0800

>Is it possible, or has anyone thought about a way to assign materials to
>verticies rather than to groups of faces or whole objects? This would be
>a really cheap way to create a textured "look" without having to load an
>actual texture map.

This is part of the Inventor model. You specify colors on a
PER_VERTEX basis, rather than the DEFAULT. For esserences, see:

http://vrml.wired.com/vrml.tech/vrml10-3.html#MaterialBinding

I don't know how many browsers actually support this, though.

James

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