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Texture interface
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Texture information processing with various 3D file formats
Various file formats allows to assign 2D color information at a triangle facet set to pretend more
details or to lodge color-coded statistics on the surface. This bitmaps are stored mostly in
external 2D picture files (e.g. PNG or JPG format) and are referenced within the 3D file. During
the manipulation and editing process in VisCAM, the texture information will be taken into
account and preserved.
The following file formats can be loaded including texture information:
• 3D Studio file format (3DS)
• VRML 1.0 & VRML 2.0 file format (WRL)
• Z Corporation ZPrint file format (ZPR)
• VisCAM 1.0 & 1.1 file format (VFX)
Triangle data files of VFX and ZPR format are written including texture information if available.
Dialog Loading texture file
The dialog “Loading texture file” for texture file selection is shown if a referenced external 2d
picture file cannot be opened while loading a triangle data file with texture support.
Select texture file
The picture file is entered here. The picture file can also be selected by using the file selection
dialog (“…”).
Use path to search for subsequent texture files
If activated the directory path of the selected picture file will be used to resolve subsequent
external references to picture files.
Ignore
No picture file is loaded for the current external reference. The related faces will be displayed
without texture.
Ignore all
No picture file is loaded for the current and all following not existing external references. All the
related faces will be displayed without texture.
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