textured vs color?

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nikhilhs

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My past experience has been with OpenGL, so I'm used to be able to specify a normal, texture, and color for every vertex. I'm now using MDX's CustomVertex, and I've found several different combinations. I've found textured+normal, normal+color, etc. But none of them allow all 3. If I want to have lighting, I need normals. But then I can't do both colors and textures, which forces me to create textures of several different colors, instead of allowing me to use the color of a vertex to blend and affect the color of the texture. Is there a way around this?

Thanks.

-Nick
 
You can use different vertex structure without using any customvertex structure.
Hovever I don't understan one thing:
you want color and normal?
why?
normal are use to lightmesh that means apply a color based on
light. You can use ambient color or emissive color.
anyway is possible
use a thing like this
structure newVertexType
dim position as vector3
dim color as integer...

etc
then use vertexformat to create the appropriate vertex format
 
here:

Dim x As VertexFormats = VertexFormats.Texture1 Or VertexFormats.Transformed Or VertexFormats.Diffuse

Texture1 means 1 texture
Transformed is wehre you use the normal(rhw)
diffuse is the color :-D
 
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