I've read here that there are "Flexible mesh data formats accepted". But from what i've read, it's only possible to load .mesh files.
Is it possible to load at least the correspondent .xml files, instead of the .mesh binaries?
Flexible mesh data formats accepted?
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Build mesh data however you like, .mesh is there to make your life easier, not to constrain you.
There are numerous examples in the code of mesh data being built in code. Use MeshManager::createManual and populate the mesh data in any way you see fit. Just be aware of the limits that D3D9 enforces on you as regards vertex formats, see the VertexDeclaration class for full details.
The point of .mesh is that it's optimised, has precomputed bounds, precomputed edge lists and all sort of other things. That doesn't mean you can't bypass it, but if you're just building standard meshes I question why you would bother - all it will do is slow your loading process down. Anyway, if you want to load direct from XML all you have to do is exactly what the OgreXmlConverter does. You could even reuse the XmlMeshSerializer class if you wanted; but we deliberately put that outside OgreMain to discourage people from loading from sub-optimal formats like that.
There are numerous examples in the code of mesh data being built in code. Use MeshManager::createManual and populate the mesh data in any way you see fit. Just be aware of the limits that D3D9 enforces on you as regards vertex formats, see the VertexDeclaration class for full details.
The point of .mesh is that it's optimised, has precomputed bounds, precomputed edge lists and all sort of other things. That doesn't mean you can't bypass it, but if you're just building standard meshes I question why you would bother - all it will do is slow your loading process down. Anyway, if you want to load direct from XML all you have to do is exactly what the OgreXmlConverter does. You could even reuse the XmlMeshSerializer class if you wanted; but we deliberately put that outside OgreMain to discourage people from loading from sub-optimal formats like that.
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I recently had to respond to a similar question. My response was something like: Some engines do the conversion at load time, some before load, but they all convert into an internal data format, even if they dont show it.
The advantage of doing the conversion before time is saving time later (convert once instead of many).
As for Ogre taking many formats, there are a lot of converters/exporters for modelling formats.
The advantage of doing the conversion before time is saving time later (convert once instead of many).
As for Ogre taking many formats, there are a lot of converters/exporters for modelling formats.