Hey everyone... Lately I have been starting to play around with Managed DirectX. I have dug through a few tutorials and now have my Direct3D initialization code so that it handles different resolutions, multisample types, and fullscreen or windowed mode. I think I am about ready to do some actual rendering. So here is the question: Is it possible to load in mesh data into a vertex buffer (say, from a .txt file) and put it into a Mesh? (By Mesh, I mean the same classes that the .x files use). The reason I ask is that there seems to be a lot of good functionality for Meshes, such as functions like NormalizeNormals, and the ability to work with Optimized Meshes and Progressive Meshes. It would be a bit of a shame to simply ingore this functionality of the Mesh class and code a bunch of it myself if there was a simple way to load in a Mesh using data from one or more vertex buffers.

No problems. I will have to do somoe more digging into this.

In case you haven't found it yet, you can use the VertexBuffer property on the mesh to retrieve a vertex buffer to put your data in directly. The SDK docs provide a simple example for that and over here you can find a more elaborate one that works with multiple attribute sets.

Hope this helps :)

Many thanks!