meshBuffer

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:35 am

ok, i want to use a mesh that is returned from a different engine (i plan to use irrlicht as the renderer and the other engine for the rest of the stuff) now if i wanted to do this would I just do this?

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irr::scene::SMeshBuffer* meshbuff;
meshbuff.Indices= pMesh; /// mesh from other engine
IAnimatedMesh* mesh = smgr->addMeshBuffer  ( meshbuff);

datamagik · Post by **datamagik** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:14 am

What format is the other mesh in?

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:41 am

well heres the disscussion on the forum for the other engine i use:
http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/sh ... Post697706

In one of the replys, someone said it was in dx format. im not sure what the difference is, i am a noob when it comes to dx, or opengl, i've just used basic engine commands up till now.

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:35 pm

Most likely the other engines vertex format is not the same as what Irrlicht uses. You would need to create a mesh buffer of the correct type [SMeshBuffer, SMeshBufferLightMap or SMeshBufferTangents], and then push vertices and indices onto that mesh buffer, being sure to initialize the right fields of each vertex.

Travis