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[Martialdu44]

hi this is my first message, i'm french,and i'm using deled lite, so i'm wonderning if it is possible to extract each polygon of my map to an independent object, this is for an export to the Dark Basic engine, where the CSG (Constructive solid geometry) don't work with object who have more than 1 texture....
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[Jeroen]

Hi there, welcome to the forums!

You can use the Extract tool for polygons, but you would have to extract each polygon individually, which can be quite a task.
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[Martialdu44]

And there no solution to automatize the process ?

because i have a lot of maps (withs many polys...), and i dont have the time to do it manualy....
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[elementrix]

If you just want to extract poly's with the same material applied, you can go into the UVeditor, select one face with a texture, and then select all the other face's that appear in the UVeditor, that way you can extract all poly's with the same material.

If you want to extract each poly, then you would need to do it mannually yes, But it's really strange that you have to extract each individual poly
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[Mr.Fletcher]

You can write a plugin that does that for you. Or in dark basic before you do the CSG, if you have access to the data.
But it doesn't really make sense to me. I reckon that it will slow everything down if you have 20000 different objects with only one polygon.
You should try to put all texture information of one object in one image file and use only that texture with the object.
Also you can select the polygons that share the same texture and only extract those. There's even a "select my material" command in DeleD. Still complicated enough, but less work than doing it for every single polygon.
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[Daaark]

Sounds like a job for Fik

Plugins->One Object Per Material

That's pretty much how my old DMF loader worked. I have a vertex array for each material, and recreated it with all the polygons of any object that had that material.

however, I didn't need any frustum culling or anything like that.
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[Paul-Jan]

Ok, so what you really need is not one object per polygon, but objects split so they have exactly one material each?

Sounds like very arbitrary functionality just to work around a bug in Dark Basic to me, but... if this is something more people would profit from, I think it should be build directly into the Dark Basic exporter. Other exporters (like the Ogre Mesh exporter, and the Blitz 3D exporter) already do this (not optionally, it is a requirement for these mesh formats).

[fik]

This does seem like a candidate for a plugin
However I don't quite see how Splitting either into one poly per object or one object per texture this would help as Martialdu44 said he wants it for dark basic csg and surely that wouldn't work with objects that are full of holes or just one poly ??

Martialdu44 I do own DB pro (haven't used in a while though) if you like to post a link to somewhere I could download your code and the model using I could have a look and see what you do need to get working.

p.s. Still working on bridge one(still not working completely as I would like yet) and completed a couple of others must make thread in plugins with all and keep them updated to latest as any bugs get fixed.

[Martialdu44]

thanks for all ansers !!

but a plugin isn't a too strong solution ???

@elementrix : can you explain you about your method ?
i can't select nothing in my UV editor !!!!
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[Starnick]

[Daaark]

Yeah, there is an option for that, I forget what it's called.
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[Mr.Fletcher]

It's the "Select" in the status bar I think (iirc)
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[Starnick]

Ah ha I spoke too soon!

[fik]

You can do it indirectly as Elementrix says.
1. Four window views.

2. Set one window to Uv.

3. Go to another window and go into polygon mode, select a poly with material on you want.

4. Drag Select all faces that are now shoeing in uv window( will only be one's with that material on).

5. Click top bar of one of the other windows you still in face mode .

6.Now click poly mode and selection stays.

7. Now click extrude

Sounds a lot longer when written than to do.

[elementrix]