Consider renaming maps to textures

[vorg]

So baseColorMap to baseColorTexture and normalMap to normalTexture etc...

pex-renderer -> map ThreeJS -> map Unity -> map Unreal -> map

ecs in Nodes -> texture Babylon -> texture cables.gl -> texture godot -> texture gltf -> texture

[dmnsgn]

It's a question of type = what it is (texture object) vs function = what it does (mapping to poly).

In 3D software world:

• blender: map
• C4D: map
• 3DSmax: map

[vorg]

Also looking at modern engines bevy: texture machinery: texture tool3: map xenko/stride: map

This is not working :D 50/50

From code UX point of view the data / port / prop is type texture. Inside shader is a TextureMap (often shortened to Map). But that is always confusing in uniforms setup where i need uBaseColorMap: material.baseColorTexture (or was it Tex? or was it Map?)

I would say props should follow glTF as much as possible. Normalising everything to texture would simplify things.

[vorg]

WGSL having texture_2d uniform type is the winning vote for *Texture names.