.X file loader – Irrlicht Engine - A free open source 3D engine

.X file loader

Anyone knows the girl on the left screenshot? Right, it is Microsofts well known tiny.x model from the DirectX SDK. During my very short holidays I implemented a .x file loader. It cannot play .x animations yet, but already loads ASCII .x files very fast. It only needs 50 ms to parse and create a model from the tiny.x file, which is 1.4 MB ASCII text. Because Microsoft created a very excellent .x exporter for Maya 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 3DS Max 3,4 and 5, it is now very easy to create content for Irrlicht with these professional 3d gfx packages. The reader will be included in next release.