Director Article

In this part of the series, we'll look at how to do some decorating within the box maze. We'll discuss some tricks to optimize the number of polygons used to display the maze and learn how you can control the appearance with shaders and textures of each wall within the maze.

Now imagine that each cell is a box with 5 sides, bottom, front, back, left and right. Smoosh some boxes together in your mind and notice that where each wall touches the next, there are actually two (2), that's right TWO walls at every position where walls touch another cell.

global w

on newTextures()
   -- build the shaders

global w

on paint()
   repeat with x = 1 to 90
      if checkCaseX(x) then
         w.model[x].shaderlist = w.shader[3]
         w.model[x].shaderlist[4] = w.shader[2]
      else
         -- find the right bottom
         b = findBottom(x)
         w.model[x].shaderlist = w.shader[3]
         w.model[x].shaderlist[b] = w.shader[2]
      end if
   end repeat
end

on findBottom(x)
  sixList = [1,9,11,18,21,31,36,41,45,63,72,81,82,84,85,86,87,88,89,90]
  .twoList = [24,57,60,78,80]
case TRUE of
   (getOne(sixList, x)):
      return 6
   (getOne(twoList, x)):


on findBottom(x)
   .sixList = [1,9,11,18,21,31,36,41,45,63,72,81,82,84,85,86,87,88,89,90]
   twoList = [24,57,60,78,80]
case TRUE of
   (getOne(sixList, x)):
      return 6
   (getOne(twoList, x)):
      return 2
   end case
end

on checkCaseX(x)
   if x > 1 AND x < 80 then
     if (x <> 9) AND (x <> 11) AND\
        (x <> 18) AND\
        (x <> 21) AND\
        (x <> 24) AND\
        (x <> 31) AND\
        (x <> 36) AND\
        (x <> 41) AND\
        (x <> 45) AND\
        (x <> 57) AND\
        (x <> 60) AND\
        (x <> 63) AND\
        (x <> 72) AND\
        (x <> 78) then
        return TRUE
      else
         return FALSE
      end if
   else
      if x <> 83 then
         return FALSE
      else
         return TRUE
      end if
   end if
end