64-bit DirectX 11 - Part 3 - Planets and Asteroid / Blender

[daydreamer]

Please post it

All right, download from here.
It includes as sample the sphere .obj file obtained from Blender.

thanks

[Siekmanski]

Hi AW,

Do you mean a vertex triangle list which have many equal vertices? ( connected to their neighbors triangles )
If so, make a copy of the vertex triangle list and remove all equal vertices except 1 and assign an index number to it.
loop thru the original triangle list and find the corresponding 3 index numbers per triangle and put them in an index buffer.

[daydreamer]

I am talking about a complex model like a car, that has tires, doors, windshields, etc. When I export it from Blender it will be in the form of a group of objects.

if you want to make a fullfledged .obj fileimporter you might to read .mtl files too,it get exported together with .obj files for several different materials assigned in 3dmodel program,but maybe better than have textures hardcoded inside game program when it becomes large

[aw27]

Hi AW,

Do you mean a vertex triangle list which have many equal vertices? ( connected to their neighbors triangles )
If so, make a copy of the vertex triangle list and remove all equal vertices except 1 and assign an index number to it.
loop thru the original triangle list and find the corresponding 3 index numbers per triangle and put them in an index buffer.

YES! That's it.

[aw27]

if you want to make a fullfledged .obj fileimporter you might to read .mtl files too,it get exported together with .obj files for several different materials assigned in 3dmodel program,but maybe better than have textures hardcoded inside game program when it becomes large

I really don't want, but I may be forced to. Alternatively there some "deprecated" functions to convert .obj to the "deprecated" .x format.

[Raistlin]

If anyone remembers the wife (Draakie) did a
3DS loader some time ago. Can't seem to find
it on the old forum (help = --hutch?)
It had some interesting code.
Maybe a universal loader is around the corner.  :t

[jj2007]

If anyone remembers the wife (Draakie) did a
3DS loader some time ago. Can't seem to find
it on the old forum (help = --hutch?)
It had some interesting code.
Maybe a universal loader is around the corner.  :t

We do remember Draakie
http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=10318.0

Attachment deleted by admin. But I remember that Hutch posted a fat zip archive with lots of the deleted attachments.

[Raistlin]

Sheesh she can over-comment (Just between us) @ jj2007

[I truely hope she doesn't see this] Anyhow,
it would be nice if we knew which post
on the old forum belonged to which codelet.
@hutch - do you still have an image with all?

[Caché GB]

Hi Raistlin

Hoe gaan dit in die Kaap?

I found this:


www.masmforum.com/archive2012/9524_asmfr_MASMBLEND___Page.zip


and this


http://www.masmforum.com/board/index.php?topic=10282.0

[Raistlin]

@Cache-GB: Dis nogal nat hierso - die Kaap van storms.
Lyk my die droogte is amper oor.  :t

Thanks for the links. Unfortunately I don't see the wife's
code. It must be there someplace. She was on & on about
recursive algorithms at the time. I was sceptic.

Don't get me wrong - she is still the best non-KF (internal joke)
debugger I know. But she is more into management practice
these days.

Anyhow, hope to find her old code & critique her on it :P

[Caché GB]

Hi Raistlin, gister het ek die ou forum deurgesoek, maar niks van die ontwykende 3DS model loader gevind nie.
Mense naam hulle zip files nie mooi nie. Die ou forum is beslis 'n skatkis. Ek het gehoor die load shedding het
weer begin. Oy vey.

[Siekmanski]

Here is my version of a 3DS loader routine.
Based on the 2 included 3DS info text files.
And an executable to show the routine.

[Caché GB]

Thanks a lot Siekmanski.

By the way, I am very upset that Oranje is not in the WC. Now I will just have to root for an underdog. Maybe Uruguay.

[Siekmanski]

Thanks a lot Siekmanski.

By the way, I am very upset that Oranje is not in the WC. Now I will just have to root for an underdog. Maybe Uruguay.

They didn't deserve to enter the WC.
This Dutch generation of footballers think they are the sons of god.
They are just spoiled and arrogant.  :icon13:

Thought you were from South Africa, or are you Dutch?

[Caché GB]

The Dutch footballers impressed me in 2010 WC. They played dam well.