Or I can work just with the X model (I don't think so..)
Tks.
How to load a WaveFront model?
Game Technologies: DirectX 101
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- Im new and im interested in making a game! A good place to start is to look at the "Spacewar Starter Kit" that comes with XNA Game Studio Express. Its available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/XNA/default.aspx Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Will run from debugger, won't run from .EXE on same machine Make sure you copy over all the files you're using, .exe, .dll, \Content, anything else you're using, not just the .exe You might also be linking to a file in an absolute path name. In VS, it might work fine because the file is under your main project folder, but if you move the build files, then it will not find the required files anymore. Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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- Drawing Animated Sprites to the Screen The easiest is probably to create a PNG file that has all of your frames in it one after the other, then load it into a Texture2D, and then when doing the SpriteBatch.Draw() call, specify the source rectangle based on the frame you are currently drawing. You should try to avoid creating a seperate image for each, there is a lot of overhead when loading a lot of textures. It would be even better to put all of the sprites you are drawing in the same PNG file and load them into a single texture for performance reasons. Every time you draw from a different Texture2D object there is a lot of overhea in making that switch. Bill Tag: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model? Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc.
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Marcos Dell Antonio de Souza
Hi. Using DirectX, how can I load a WaveFront model
Or I can work just with the X model (I don't think so..)
Tks.
Or I can work just with the X model (I don't think so..)
Tks.
Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model?
Jack Hoxley
There are no WaveFront loaders included out-of-the-box in the DirectX SDK. Only .X files are supported by the API.
Whilst .X is only really important in the developer world there are lots of conversion tools that might well simplify things for you; failing that you'll have to find a 3rd party loader or write your own WaveFront file parser.
hth
Jack
Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model?
Marcos Dell Antonio de Souza
Ok, but i'm using the Mobile Direct3D Managed.
As I know, this "version" does not support the .X format. So, instead of using the md3dm format that came with the samples, I'm thinking to write my own loader.
Could you give me some tips For example, probably my WaveFront model will have a lot of vertices... what kind of structure should I use to keep this data in memory What class should I take a look
Can you give me a simple example Of course man, i'm studying a lot :-)
Thanks ;)
Ok, but i'm using the Mobile Direct3D Managed.
As I know, this "version" does not support the .X format. So, instead of using the md3dm format that came with the samples, I'm thinking to write my own loader.
Could you give me some tips For example, probably my WaveFront model will have a lot of vertices... what kind of structure should I use to keep this data in memory What class should I take a look
Can you give me a simple example Of course man, i'm studying a lot :-)
Thanks ;)
Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model?
Jack Hoxley
I've not had a chance to use Mobile D3D - although I might be getting my hands on some hardware in the near future 
Wotsit is a good repository of file-format specifications, and I'm sure your preferred search engine will pull up similar information. Until you understand the format of the data you're trying to load its difficult to suggest a data structure to use in your application. Ideally a 1:1 mapping would be nice, but given the API as well as any other mobile restrictions you may have to convert or put limitations on the incoming data.
I've never used the WaveFront file format so I can't give you any examples.
hth
Jack
Re: Game Technologies: DirectX 101 How to load a WaveFront model?
Marcos Dell Antonio
Thanks man.
Wotsit seems to be a very good site. But just one more question (for this moment :D): do you think that I should load another kind of model, instead of WaveFront
I'm using this model because it seems to be very commom to developers. Is it true
Tks ;)
Thanks man.
Wotsit seems to be a very good site. But just one more question (for this moment :D): do you think that I should load another kind of model, instead of WaveFront
I'm using this model because it seems to be very commom to developers. Is it true
Tks ;)