d3d_automaterial

d3d_automaterial

Activates automatic material assignments by material names. This way, default materials can be assigned to individual level textures and entity files, and material effects like bumpmapping and shaders can be assigned to level texures without having to set them to individual blocks in WED.

Range:

0	No automatic material assignment (default).
1	Automatically assign a material to all level blocks that have a texture with the same name as the material.
2	Automatically assign a material to all entity files with the same name ('.' replaced by underscore '_').
4	A7.84 When a material was applied to a level block in WED, automatically assign the same material to all blocks with the same texture.

Type:

var

Remarks:

For automatically assigning a material to all blocks with a certain texture, set d3d_automaterial at 1, and define the material with the same name as the texture. Level texture names are limited to 15 characters.
For automatically assigning a material to a certain file, set d3d_automaterial at 2, and define a material that has the same name as the file with the extension preceded by an underscore (like "warlock_mdl" or "brickwall_tga").
For automatically assigning a material to all blocks with a certain texture, set d3d_automaterial at 4 and use (WED / Block Properties) to apply the material to an arbitrary block with the desired texture (e.g. apply mtl_bump to a block with the texture "stonewall" for rendering all stonewall surfaces with bumpmapping).
The modes can be combined by adding, f.i. d3d_automaterial = 1+4;.
Levels load a little faster if this variable is at 0 or 4.

Example:

d3d_automaterial = 1+2; // automatically assign materials to textures and entities
...
MATERIAL* stonewall = { ... } // assigned to all "stonewall" surface textures
MATERIAL* skyblue_tga = { ... } // assigned to "skyblue.tga"
MATERIAL* monster_mdl = { ... } // assigned to "monster.mdl"

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