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loading multiple .x files

Started by sixteen Sep 7, 2006 at 3:16 PM 1 replies 500+ views

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Sep 7, 2006 at 3:16 PM

Every tutorial I come across for loading a .x mesh isn't what I want. It's radically different loading in a single .x file compared to making a function that will load any number of .x files I want. I do not know how to program this and every attempt I make at it, I fail. It just doesn't seem so easy to make the load .x function into a function that will accept the name of a .x file as a parameter that I can pass to it and have it also store all the textures and materials properly. Ugh!

Muhammad Haggag

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Muhammad Haggag

Sep 7, 2006 at 5:33 PM

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Every tutorial I come across for loading a .x mesh isn't what I want. It's radically different loading in a single .x file compared to making a function that will load any number of .x files I want.

It shouldn't be radically different. Once you figure out how to load a single X file, you should know enough to abstract it.

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I do not know how to program this and every attempt I make at it, I fail.

If you have specific problems creating the abstraction, share it and we'll try to help. [smile]

You already have code that loads a single mesh, so you know what kind of 'data' is stored in the end (e.g. materials and textures). It should be simple enough to create a class that wraps this up.

Sagito

Sep 8, 2006 at 8:12 AM

I don't know which programming language are you working with, but if you are using C++ or VB I suggest you create a class (or typedef struct in VB) where you store your Mesh, a vector of materials, textures, and so on. This way it will make it a lot easier for you to save all the data you need and render it afterwards. So, when you need to call your .x loading function you just need to store all your info in an object of that class...

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