With blending or just pure colored RGB (textures) ?

not pure colored rgb (I think from what I understand on your response).

blending textures from one to another.

what I mean with RGB is the a texture the object have to define what texture goes in which color.

ex: I make a terrain and texture it with a texture with 3 different zones, in R, G and B colors. then the shader would interpret each color and, R would be textured as sand, G as grass and B as rock, and each of those would softly blend with each other.

what Im looking after is something like your terrain editor,but instead texture it by height, texture it by RGB.

since I want to use it for terrains, I think bumpy would be perfect.

and the shader will do the texturetiles

I totally forgot that detail, thanks 3dSimulant!
the shader should have a value to modify where you can select "how much X" to tile the textures, or each texture.

But the user should have access to the three Texture files to exchange them.

Im not sure what you meant here...

the textures could be named textureR, textureG, textureB, and those are wich the shader user so then you just replace them with whatever you want: grass, rock, whatever.
was I any close?

Yes, and to keep the things simple you can define the size of a Tile by resize the texture file.
For example: a 128pixel wide texture Tile is always 1meter at the Skinmesh, a 256pix tile will cover 2m of the SM. and so on...

that "so on" could be colossal in a big terrain, also if you use the size of the file to tile (honestly, something completly unnecesary) you waste that valuable size that could be used for detail.

sorry, but tile must be software controlled, and by software controlled I mean a little value in a script. like:

int tileR=10; // that's it.

is not hard for the user to use it, and I know is not hard for the programer as the shadmar terrain editor feature such function with a slider.
and is not about making it harder or less simple either, is just how it works.

also you can always die tiling the texture if you want (not recomended at-all).

eeehhh... and what could be the amount colours limit? like... R G B I assume is ok, could be white and black included? to have more texture options.

also, (damn me) could the blending distance or area be a setup too?

I made a little graphic example this time about the initial idea.

Great ideas!, tiling can be controlled by setting tilecount in the skinmesh dialog. UserTextureA/B/C.dds could be texture replacement for RGB read from model. We could also use one streched normalmap or one tiled.

Writing on my cell here at $6 per mb. This is expensive surfing.

Yes Loop, I always try to define the features scriptless and easy to use for newbies so things can look strange for a real coder, but your way is much more flexibel and a little script don't hurt!
 
hm, black&white... maybe in the far future we can integrate real fur or grass for one color ?!
 
 
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This means blendings is done in a RGB texture mask instead of doing it in the shader

how's that?
the RGB texture should include the blending, for example... from red to green? (fig1) and the shader would read red AND green and copy the blending in the textures?

This would be a non bumpy shader, since we only have 5 texture slots alltogheter. 000_em 000_nm UserTextureA/B/C.

000_nm isnt the bump texture?

also, Im feeling pretty dumb right here... but I dont understand how the 000_em which ..isnt the one used for reflexes? works as texture for the object.  shouldnt be the object texture, like here? http://www.3drad.com/forum/index.php?topic=3873.0



other than that sounds great 

Ok here is what I got so far, tell me if this is what we're looking for.

Pic1 just shows the mesh texture.
Pic2 shows shader translating RGB to 3 other textures. In this case R=Stone, G=grass, B=sand

Any variations of white or black just becomes, light or shadowmap.