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hey, Trying to get the md2 model working. Its my first attempt at working with models. Anyhoo, like many, i use OpenGL Game Programming as my starting guide. Anyways, i basically copied their code so i can make sure it works before i modify it to my liking. But here is the problem. I load the file, and then i just draw a frame. I didnt add texturing yet cause i wanna make sure things work so far. So basically, i should just get a white silhouette of the model (i set the color to white). Anyhooo, when i compile and run, nothing. Just a black screen. There is alot of code involved in loading it and just rendering a frame so i wont post it those functions unless i have to(dunno how to post source code in that little white box so my post would be very long). Anyone who has that book can look it up (chapter 18). But, i believe my problem is in the loading function. I found a for loop that doesnt make any sense. Here is the code from the book: triIndex = new mesh_t [numTriangles]; // point to triangle indexes in buffer bufIndexPtr = (mesh_t*)&buffer[modelHeader->offsetTris]; // create a mesh (triangle) list for (j = 0; j < numFrames; j++) { // for all triangles in each frame for(i = 0; i < numTriangles; i++) { triIndex.meshIndex[0] = bufIndexPtr.meshIndex[0]; triIndex.meshIndex[1] = bufIndexPtr.meshIndex[1]; triIndex.meshIndex[2] = bufIndexPtr.meshIndex[2]; triIndex.stIndex[0] = bufIndexPtr.stIndex[0]; triIndex.stIndex[1] = bufIndexPtr.stIndex[1]; triIndex.stIndex[2] = bufIndexPtr.stIndex[2]; } } Is it just me, or is that for wrong. I mean, the j is never used. So every loop of the j for loop will erase any data written the previous loop. However, if you look at the mem alloc, they only alloc enough mem for the tris in one frame.
