zCMaterial

zCMaterial class describes the properties of the game materials.

Class members

Class member overview

defaultMapping

Default material mapping.

name

Material name. In most cases corresponds to the name of the texture map.

matGroup

Sound accompaniment of the material. Must be specified to produce the correct sounds when moving across the specified material.

Accepted values:

• UNDEF - Undefined.
• METAL - Metal.
• STONE - Stone.
• WOOD - Wood.
• EARTH - Earth.
• WATER - Water.
• SNOW - Snow.

color

Texture replacement color in RGBA format. Polygon is in this color until engine applies the texture.

smoothAngle

Defines the angle of material smoothing between two faces.

texture

Defines the name of the texture file used for the material, which also determines whether the texture is animated or static.

To create animated textures, add a suffix to the file name _A0, e.g., NW_Fire_A0.TGA, NW_Fire_A1.TGA etc. The texture NW_Fire_A0.TGA is the first frame. The game engine will automatically search your hard drive for remaining animation files.

texScale

Defines the scaling along the X and Y axes. Assigns the necessary texture coordinates to polygons.

texAniFPS

Defines the FPS (frames per seconds) of texture animation, but only if the texture is animated (NAME_A0.*).

texAniMapMode

Texture animation mode.

Accepted values:

• NONE - No texture animation.
• LINEAR - Linear texture animation.

texAniMapDir

Defines the direction and movement speed of animated textures. The values should be significantly lower than 1 (For example 0.00005).

noCollDet

Defines if collision detection is disabled.

Accepted values:

• TRUE - Collisions disabled.
• FALSE - Collisions enabled.

noLightmap

Defines if light map is disabled.

Accepted values:

• TRUE - Disable baking of light maps on the material.
• FALSE - Enable baking of light maps on the material.

lodDontCollapse

If you activate this option, the texture will not degrade when the camera moves away.

Accepted values:

• TRUE - Disable texture degradation.
• FALSE - Enable texture degradation.

detailObject

An option that allows you to complement the material with an additional texture.

detailObjectScale

Tiling of the overlay image selected in the detailObject property.

forceOccluder

No information provided.

Accepted values:

• TRUE
• FALSE

environmentalMapping

Environment mapping mode. Creates glare on the texture.

Accepted values:

• TRUE - Enable reflection mode.
• FALSE - Disable reflection mode.

environmentalMappingStrength

The strength of environmental reflection on a model.

waveMode

Enable wave simulation mode. For example, AMBIENT_GROUND is used for water textures.

Accepted values:

• NONE - Wave simulation is disabled.
• AMBIENT_GROUND - Wave simulation is enabled.
• GROUND - No information.
• AMBIENT_WALL - No information.
• WALL - No information.
• ENV - No information.
• AMBIENT_WIND - No information.
• WIND - No information.

waveSpeed

Wave speed.

Accepted values:

• SLOW - Slow.
• NORMAL - Normal.
• FAST - Fast.

waveMaxAmplitude

Maximum wave amplitude.

waveGridSize

Wave mesh size.

ignoreSunLight

Defines if the material ignores sunlight (doesn't cast shadows).

Accepted values:

• TRUE - Ignore.
• FALSE - Don't ignore.

alphaFunc

Alpha channel blending function.

Accepted values:

• NONE - None.
• MAT_DEFAULT - Use texture alpha channel.
• BLEND - Mixing.
• SUB - Subtraction.
• MUL - Multiplication.
• MUL2 - Multiplication 2.