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Scene & Model Question

Started by Kraiklyn Apr 7, 2002 at 9:45 AM 0 replies 300+ views

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Apr 7, 2002 at 9:45 AM

Hi Folks I. SceneGraphs Is is feasible to use more than one scenegraph within a game engine? ie. one for the static world geometry and a second for all dynamically moving game actors ?? II. Model Formats The game engine im currenty working on is using the directx api. Is it best to stick with the x file format for all graphical actors AND the gameworld environmental data ( terrain, large buildings etc) or is the x format more suited to small game models. Also, im interested in creating my own model format as an alternative and to build knowledge, is this still a widely done thing in the industry or are more engines making use of other existing formats eg. MD2 ... Any insights would really help Thanks Robert Dick

Heretik

Apr 10, 2002 at 9:15 AM

I think noone will disagree if I say that the DirectX documentation about X files is dumb shit.

And it seems there''s quite a lot of code to write to use it.

I don''t really know if it''s really powerful, but personnaly I think I''ll stick with a Serialize approach.

(However when saving a class which contains pointers to "shared objects", like a mesh having a pointer to each of its materials classes, serializing can become a bit tricky, You''ll have to use a kind of mapping or something like that)

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