Xith3d newbie...(textures related)

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#1

Hi all, this is my very first post :smiley:
I’m just a newbie, and I need some advice ;D

Well, I’m making a tennis game, by now, I only got the ‘court’:
a rectangle with a grass texture, and the court lines ‘painted’ over it.

The problem is that the court lines (actually, they’re only a LineArray) doesn’t change its width when the ‘camera’ gets closer or farer (using Transform3D.lookAt(…)) …and that is not very esthetic i think :stuck_out_tongue:

So I don’t know if i should make an image of the court lines and then put it over the grass texture, or maybe something else…
(by the way, I’ve read the tutorial about textures, I have no problem with that :P)

thanks in advance

#2

You say the court lines are painted on it : it’s part of the texture, or is it a LineArray ?

If it’s a LineArray, it’s normal. Lines are supposed to be infinitely thin. And if your lines are on the texture, well it’s supposed to grow as your approaching it.

#3

yep, the court lines are not part of the texture.

So, if I want lines changing its width as the camera moves, I need to put them as a texture, rigth?

#4

yup - that would probably be the easiest way, but you could also create new Geometry for that (e.g. a QuadArray or a TriangleArray) This would be closest to your line-making-way.

Arne