I'm finishing a document describing the VMesh format for upload tonight, should be ready in a hour or so. In case you're curious tho, here's the information i have on mesh chunks, taken from the document i'm writing:

mesh
{
dword materialID
word start_vertex
word end_vertex
word number_of_referenced_vertices (as before, number_of_triangles * 3)
word unknown (always 0xcc, may be a padding value, for dword allignment)
} = 12 bytes

(edit) corrected a small mistake

Mario

Edited by - HCl on 30-03-2003 23:10:27

or so ..

LOL well, IM and friends barging in slow me down

It's up now tho, here

Thanks.
I have all the data but I am having trouble when I draw the model using Direct3D. I get a polygonal mess.
Could you elaborate a bit on how to use this info to draw the mesh?

-dizzy

HCL, do you by any chance know of a way to extract ship mesh's from the .TRE files from Privateer & Wing Commander etc?

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

I am building a model viewer for freelancer models. I have been able to display the tigershark and dralthi models uploaded by HCl. Any other game models do not display correctly. Am I missing something here?
Each vmesh in the CMP file is a different LOD for the ship correct? So if I only take the first vmesh for LOD 0 that should be the model with the greatest detail.
Is there any references I need to look at that references the meshes of the VMesh?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

-dizzy

Nevermind I think I figured it out.

-dizzy

Edited by - dizzy on 31-03-2003 22:18:24