Mesh Without Material

[JrIndie]

Hello, I was wondering if Blender2Ogre could export a mesh without a material attached to it. For example, we want to have *.mesh with no predefined material so we can assign our own.

Thanks you!

[paroj]

https://github.com/OGRECave/blender2ogre#external-ogre-materials ?

[JrIndie]

Hello paroj,

Thank you for the response. I am sorry I did not see this. But I also want to clarify a few things ...

We are new to Ogre and just want to get the basics done correctly. After getting meshes loaded and with their material and textures, I can only assume the internal workings of the function automatically load and apply materials/textures that are predefined in the *.mesh itself.

If this is correct, I would like to know of a way that does not do this, so that in our editors we can assign our own materials, and textures (basically like HLMS PBR).

Thank you for your time.

[paroj]

the mesh file merely stores a material name that is resolved on loading from the supplied *.material scripts and the programmatically created materials. So if you would like to use a material from the HLMS sample (1.10) you would call the material extern.PBS_X_Y_Z and make sure that the according material is created before the mesh is loaded.

[JrIndie]

Okay! So there is no way we can leave this section blank, and supply the Material in our own tools? If so, I assume we can use some basic Generic Material, and then we can change that later, correct?

Thanks!

[paroj]

yes, this would be the most straighforward approach. Note that Ogre requires that some material is specified on loading - otherwise we would not know how to render the mesh.