Hi all,
Sorry if this has been asked before, I'm new to jME and it's possible my search keyword selection isn't quite up to it yet!
Now I know that I can set the colour of an object (under lighting) using MaterialState, like so:
Spatial spatial;
ColorRGBA color;
Renderer renderer;
...
spatial.setRenderState(renderer.createMaterialState().setDiffuse(color));
A slightly more complicated but vaguely equivalent chunk of code will also do a texture.
Now my question is, is there any way of setting things up such that code that needs to set the color or texture of a spatial DOESN'T need access to the renderer (or DisplaySystem or anything apart from the spatial itself)? For some strange reason the software engineer in me starts squirming at the thought of any object building thingo needing access to the renderer if it wants to be something other than the default colour (and yet doesn't need access when it's a pregenerated model complete with colours and textures).
In straight C OpenGL I'd do something like this ...
...
glEnable(GL_COLOR_MATERIAL);
...
glBegin(...);
...
glColor4f(...);
drawMySpatial();
...
glEnd(...);
...
I tried doing the following in jME which I assumed would be vaguely equivalent:
...
GL11.glEnable(GL11.GL_COLOR_MATERIAL);
...
spatial.setSolidColor(color);
...
but it doesn't seem to make any difference - the spatial in question remains the default color when lighting is enabled (and takes on the right color when lighting is disabled).
I'd be happy with a solution that involved some jiggery pokery up front in the setup phase - or even something that involved modifying the render step slightly, as long as it doesn't involve passing objects like the renderer around.
Any ideas anyone? :D
