Md2 model

Well it seems the number is different so i can't count on my method .

it is, and its very difficult to compensate for it in d3d. you get banding artefacts.

May I sugest:



Then build a std::vector or simple array of both vertices and uv coords and use the pointers on the triangle struct to reference them durring drawing time, this will eliminate redundancy.

The number is not equal .Here's the output of the md2 header:

NumTex:376NumTriangle:704NumVertex:369

This is for blade.md2 which i downloaded from planetquake

The only way arround this is an interleave struct
struct vertex
{
float s,t;
byte vertexIndex;
}


In fact this structure exists in the file at the GLCommands section for fast rendering with vertexArrays i guess .It's frustrating that i have to make my own structs for rendering when i could only read the file and issue some commands using that existing group of structs ,don't you think?

MD2 is a very old file format, from before vertex array rendering and batching was important (i e, from the software-only-and-no-SSE-streaming days).

The best you can do is convert from the MD2 buffers to actual vertex arrays in a pre-conversion step when you build your game. If that won't work, then the second best is to convert to vertex arrays when you load the file into the game, say as part of level load.