loading meshes

Hmm, I never had any trouble with the panda exporter...

Anyway - what exactly "won''t work" when it''s loaded with the tutorial program - texture screwed up? normals wrong? nothing to display? what''s the details?

If meshview loads and displays it all correctly, I''d say it''s *not* a problem with the X file itself.

-Mezz

it just doesn''t display anything in the window at all. the only thing i could see that could be going wrong is the mesh has 6 textures associated with it, but i''m only loading 1 of them since it''s the only one i was given by the artist. but it does display in meshview.exe even without all the textures, so i''m stumped.

It might be because the tutorial sample assumes the camera is at a fixed position in space. If the model you''re trying to load is really big, then your camera could be located inside the actual model. This would make is seem like nothing is rendered.

You can use MeshView to see the extents of the model along all three axis. Place your camera somewhere outside these extents and check if you can see the model.

neneboricua

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Original post by neneboricua19
It might be because the tutorial sample assumes the camera is at a fixed position in space. If the model you''re trying to load is really big, then your camera could be located inside the actual model. This would make is seem like nothing is rendered.

You can use MeshView to see the extents of the model along all three axis. Place your camera somewhere outside these extents and check if you can see the model.

neneboricua

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excuse my newbness, but how do i figure out what the extents are on the model in meshview? i never thought that it could be a camera problem, but that seems completely logical.

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Original post by dbunder
excuse my newbness, but how do i figure out what the extents are on the model in meshview? i never thought that it could be a camera problem, but that seems completely logical.

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Sorry but I may have been thinking of another modeling program. I just loaded up MeshView and couldn''t find the button that tells you how big the whole mesh is.

In any case, you can move your camera back a ways and see if your model shows up. Move it back like 10 or 20 or 30 units and you should see the model.

neneboricua

i moved it around today, forward and back, 10 units, 20, etc. still can''t see the thing. still totally stumped. any other suggestions? i''m gonna look at the code for meshview tomorrow to see how it goes about displaying it correctly.

The code in that tutorial is fundamentally sound. It should be able to display pretty much any model correctly. If you actually created the model you''re trying to load, then you probably know how big you made it. If not, load it up in Max again and check the model''s bounding box.

If the model is pretty big, make sure you move your camera back enough so that you can see it. For example, if you use Tutorial6 to to load the Tiny.x model that comes in the DX SDK, you need to move your camera back to around -500 on the z because the model is very large. You also need to extend your far clipping plane. The default is set at 100 but since the model is so big, put it at 1000 so that you can see it.

Also, when you load the model you created, turn off all culling. In case you didn''t know, culling is the idea of not rendering triangles that are facing away from the viewer. But since we''re just testing here, go ahead and turn it off and see if your model shows up. To turn off culling, do the following in your init function some time after you''ve created the D3D device:

g_pD3DDevice->SetRenderState(D3DRS_CULLMODE, D3DCULL_NONE);

See if that works for you.

neneboricua

before i got this reply i gave that a try, as it was the only thing i hadn''t tried yet. it didn''t work for the model i was trying to load yesterday, but it worked on a simple sphere with a texture on it. i''m guessing the other export was just a bad export. trying another export in a bit.

thanks for all your help guys!