PaintEntity vs. PaintMesh???

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Happy Sammy

Hi all,

What is the difference between them?
By replacing "PaintMesh" with "PaintEntity" of official example code of b3d, I could not see any difference. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

; PaintMesh Example
; -----------------

Graphics3D 640,480
SetBuffer BackBuffer()

camera=CreateCamera()

light=CreateLight()
RotateEntity light,90,0,0

cube=CreateCube()
PositionEntity cube,0,0,5

; Load texture
tex=LoadTexture("media/b3dlogo.jpg")

; Create brush
brush=CreateBrush()

; Apply texture to brush
BrushTexture brush,tex

; And some other effects
BrushColor brush,0,0,255
BrushShininess brush,1 

; Paint mesh with brush
PaintMesh cube,brush  ;<-- try to replace with "paintentity"

While Not KeyDown( 1 )

pitch#=0
yaw#=0
roll#=0

If KeyDown( 208 )=True Then pitch#=-1 
If KeyDown( 200 )=True Then pitch#=1
If KeyDown( 203 )=True Then yaw#=-1
If KeyDown( 205 )=True Then yaw#=1
If KeyDown( 45 )=True Then roll#=-1
If KeyDown( 44 )=True Then roll#=1

TurnEntity cube,pitch#,yaw#,roll#

RenderWorld
Flip

Wend

End