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Will FME ever support complex appearances (when translating 3D formats)?

  • February 11, 2016
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geosander
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Lots of 3D formats support complex appearances (materials) that not only have a main texture, but also contain a bump map, alpha map etc.

Until now, I have only been working with singular textures, but in the near future I might need to deal with complex appearances too.

According to the documentation, an appearance can only reference 1 texture. However, in the FME Objects Python API, I did notice that the FMEAppearance class contains a getMapperReference(mapperType) method, which seems to be exactly the thing I need. Unfortunately, when I try it out with a PythonCaller, it tells me that it doesn't take arguments (so no mapperType) and if I call it without parameters it just crashes or stops the translation without a failure message. So I guess this hasn't been implemented yet... :(

 

Are there any plans to support multiple texture maps soon? I guess it would also mean that all the 3D format readers need to be enhanced so that they actually translate this information correctly...

Best answer by mark2atsafe

Hi Sander @sander_s

I've looked this up and I think you are the first user to ask for this. We have an enhancement request in with our development team, but it doesn't have a very high priority.

Anyway, I've added your contact information so that you are contacted if and when we implement this. For your information, the reference number is PR#21724

I added your comments and will let you know if the developers have anything to say about the Python API.

Regards

Mark

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  • February 16, 2016

Hi Sander @sander_s

I've looked this up and I think you are the first user to ask for this. We have an enhancement request in with our development team, but it doesn't have a very high priority.

Anyway, I've added your contact information so that you are contacted if and when we implement this. For your information, the reference number is PR#21724

I added your comments and will let you know if the developers have anything to say about the Python API.

Regards

Mark

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geosander
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  • February 16, 2016

Hi Sander @sander_s

I've looked this up and I think you are the first user to ask for this. We have an enhancement request in with our development team, but it doesn't have a very high priority.

Anyway, I've added your contact information so that you are contacted if and when we implement this. For your information, the reference number is PR#21724

I added your comments and will let you know if the developers have anything to say about the Python API.

Regards

Mark

Product Evangelist

Thanks @Mark2AtSafe!

I already had the impression I might be one of the first ones asking for this...

On the other hand, this might be a good opportunity to make FME more popular among 3D enthusiasts, especially since GIS and 3D are getting more intertwined these days! :)

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