User Guide

664 Chapter 14: Properties
Description
3D #standard shader property; indicates whether blending of a texture layer with the texture
layers below it is based on the texture’s alpha information or a constant ratio.
The shader’s texture list and the blend source list both have eight index positions. Each index
position in the blend source list controls blending for the texture at the corresponding index
position in the texture list. You can set all index positions of the list to the same value at one time
by not specifying the optional
index parameter. Use the index parameter to set the list one index
position at a time.
The
blendSourceList property only works when the blendFunction property of the
corresponding texture layer is set to
#blend. See blendFunction and blendFunctionList for
more information.
The possible values of this property are as follows:
#alpha causes the alpha information in the texture to determine the blend ratio of each pixel of
the texture layer with the layer below it.
#constant causes the value of the blendConstant property of the corresponding texture layer to
be used as the blend ratio for all of the pixels of the texture layer. See
blendConstant and
blendConstantList for more information.
The default value of this property is
#constant.
Example
In this example, the shader list of the model MysteryBox contains six shaders. Each shader has a
texture list that contains up to eight textures. This statement shows that the
blendSource
property of the fourth texture used by the second shader is set to
#constant. This enables the
settings of the
blendConstant, blendConstantList, and useDiffuseWithTexture properties.
member("Level2").model("MysteryBox").shaderList[2].\
blendSourceList[4] = #constant
See also
blendSource, blendFunction, blendFunctionList, blendConstant,
blendConstantList, useDiffuseWithTexture, diffuse, diffuseColor
blendTime
Usage
member(whichCastmember).model(whichModel).keyframePlayer.\
blendTime
member(whichCastmember).model(whichModel).bonesPlayer.blendTime
Description
3D keyframePlayer and bonesPlayer modifier property; determines the duration, in
milliseconds, of the transition between motions in the playlist of the modifier for the model.
The
blendTime property works in conjunction with the modifier’s autoBlend property. When
autoBlend is set to TRUE, the modifier creates a linear transition to the model’s currently playing
motion from the motion that preceded it. The value of the blendTime property is the length of
that transition. The
blendTime property is ignored if autoBlend is set to FALSE.
The default setting of this property is 500.