md3 loader for directx 9?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by shultays August 18, 2009 01:25 AM

4 comments, last by shultays 14 years, 8 months ago

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August 18, 2009 01:25 AM

I am looking for a md3 (quake 3 character models) loader. I searched it for a bit but no results =( also are there any other character model formats I can use?

taytay

VizOne

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August 18, 2009 02:09 AM

Have a look at ASSIMP, it loads quite a bunch of file formats.

Andre Loker | Personal blog on .NET

shultays

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August 18, 2009 09:43 AM

thank you. but I think I will write my own loader.

thanks to this site
http://icculus.org/~phaethon/q3a/formats/md3format.html

I managed to load everything I need into memory. only remained work is creating index&vertex buffers and implementing the animation system.

taytay

shultays

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August 18, 2009 01:26 PM

look guys a pair of legs! =D

I have a small question. md3 uses keyframes for animations. I read this in a site, dont remember where. for creating a frame between two keyframes I need to use linear interpolation of these two key frames.

My problem is do I have to create a new vertex buffers for each render? Wouldn't it cause too much work on cpu?

taytay

VizOne

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August 19, 2009 01:57 AM

Have a look at http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=544189&whichpage=1&

Andre Loker | Personal blog on .NET

shultays

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August 19, 2009 06:45 AM

thank you for your help. this is the exactly what I need!

taytay