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Posted by kleiba at Nov 14, 2011, 4:40:32 AM
Re: HomePieceOfFurniture - model color
Thank you very much for your information, I was able to implement what I had in mind now.
I had actually noticed the ModelManager class before, but frankly I find it a bit unintuitive that that is the preferred way to reach the 3D model data: why would I have to 'loadModel' when the model obviously is in the memory already somewhere? Does 'loadModel' actually hit the disk again and then duplicates the model data, or does the ModelManager do some kind of caching?

Unfortunately, the plugin is not for changing colors of different parts of a model, it's merely an exporter. :( Sorry to disappoint you!

That probably makes it of limited interest to others (especially, since it is a homebrew format I want to export to), but I could still ask my boss if we can open-source it, if you think somebody else might benefit from it.

Thanks again for your (quick!) help!