[solved in shoggoth]pragma in material/ pass / texture_unit

[madmarx]

EDIT : this is possible in ogre 1.6, according to this (latter) thread :
http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41073



Hello,

I suggest to add a pragma into material / pass / texture_unit. It's like a user defined information. It could be extremely useful, when a new effect must be developped and tested, without directly produce a patch for it that changes the parser.

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material
{
         pragma  (nameOfpragma1, what ever you want on the line)    
         pragma  (nameOfpragma2, another information)

          technique
             {
                    pass firstpass
                      {
                               pragma (passToTexture, myRTT)
                               pragma (useNvidiaUnfoldShader, true)

                               texture_unit
                               {
                                     dog.jpg
                               }
                               ...
                      }
              }
}

Then the programmer just has to make :

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myMaterialPtr->hasPragma("nameOfpragma1");
String myPragma = myMaterialPtr->getPragma("nameOfpragma1");

Same goes for :
Technique / Pass / TextureUnit
(even if maybe Technique is already ok with the scheme feature). It permits lots of customization (for exporters / importers), and prototyping easily new feature (for example the new blend in Shoggoth). It could also be named 'userInfo' instead of pragma...

What do you think?[/b]