i was just wondering if anyone can bring me up to speed on texturing metaballs. since i use the marching cubes algorithm, i''m going to have to assign texture coordinates per vertex as i generate them right? my question is, how do i generate these vertices?
for environment mapping, i know i have to get the longest normal vector component and divide the other two components by it to get the texture coordinates (which i will clarify later one), but how do i properly generate the correct coordinates for normal texture mapping of a metaball?
thanks!
p.s. any good sources for liquid metal textures out there? i plan on doing a two-pass algorithm for my metaballs, with the first being application of the liquid metal texture, and the second being the env. mapping, with blending on, of course
