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Mr Anderson
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Posted: 14th Oct 2003 09:28
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How would I go about loading my own geometric data from a file and then rendering it with DB Pro.. if that is possible.

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Mr Anderson
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Posted: 24th Oct 2003 07:50 Edited at: 24th Oct 2003 08:16
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When I wrote this I was very new to this forum didn't evevn know if the subject had been brought up and buried.

After looking at other threads and seeing that no one cared or pretend to have an answer I though of something, and I hope someone will give me a nod and say that might work, or tell me a better way.

I saw that someone wrote a DLL that can call DBPro functions in C code. SO I was thinking that I can make a DLL that calls DBPro Functions and uses the memblock, calls to place the geometry in that format, so I can use it/ or access it in DB...

Now that might work... but should I waste my time, when a SDK or that feature might just come out very soon? Or is there an easier way??

And for anyone who has a similar question, the code base has two ones you should look at. Just look for items under membloack and Mesh.

G'day

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 24th Oct 2003 09:39
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never saw this... must've been a day i was off.
checkout the Mesh Memblocks, there are examples in the codebase and in the snippet sections that explain exactly howto load in data.

oddly not many people seem to still have figured out howto use them after DB/P having them for over 2years now

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Posted: 24th Oct 2003 15:55
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I guess that people generally avoid it by using other mechanisms - after all, who really wants to go that 'low-level' with vertice manipulation ... except for a few of us of course

You can find some code that generates a terrain I used in reporting a bug here : http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=14433&b=15

It's a bit old now, and I have much more advanced techniques/code/DLLs to do this, but it should give you a start - converting it to use a heightmap bitmap should be easy (HINT: Read the height data into the HeightMap array)
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 00:21
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Thanks for the replies.

Is there a name for the memblock format? I think I read something that started with an F..

When you bring in a 3d mesh like 3ds or so, is there functionality for special dummy objects you place on the mess. For example, a target point or place you want a projectle to fire from.

Or do you have to us the limbs system?

Again thanks for responses.

G'day

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