Manually creating a Mesh without MeshManager

[Yavin]

@ the OGRE Team:

I'm working on a Java based converter for several 3D formats. Why it is not allowed to create a Mesh directly without the MeshManager? I only want to export it with the serializer. I doesn't understand why the MeshManager has to know anything about the mesh. I think it must not because I don't want to add it in a scene at the moment. Just creating and writing as .mesh file.

Could I do this:

Code: Select all

Mesh * mesh = new Mesh(0, "Name", 0, "General", true, 0);
// populate data
MeshSerializer * ser = new MeshSerializer();
ser.export(mesh);
delete ser;
delete mesh;

[sinbad]

Because all resources notify their ResourceManager of various things. It's not exactly hard:

Code: Select all

MeshPtr ogreMesh = MeshManager::getSingleton().create("export", 
        ResourceGroupManager::DEFAULT_RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME);