Hey, I finally wrote the .dbo exporter for my map editor so now you can build a level out of whatever custom doodads you decide to throw in the directory and then when you export it combines them all into one .dbo object and saves them off.
Unfortunatly, all geometrically the world turns out perfect its not textured :/ I was talking to Mike about it and he says its to do with dbMakeMeshFromObject() not carrying over the texture data and may be addressed in the future - however it may not be for a while so I am advised to explore methods of manually texturing the level.
Now i can texture the limbs manually if i can get the name of the texture from the original .x that the limb mesh was made from (quite a mouthful, also its gonna get real complicated with objects that have more than one texture/limb inside them..) but I'm really not sure how to do this. dbLimbTextureName() sounds perfeccccccccct, but it only works with objects that were textured by db and not with pre-textured external models :/
it seems the only option i have is when im running through the map and making meshes which are then added as limbs to the combined map file to get the object's filename (easy, stored in the map data) and to open it up and manually parse it, find the name of textures and then manually load and apply them to the limb. Im not even sure where to start though, and for the sake of ease-of-use for a third party using the editor it should be able to parse binary and ascii .x files.. im not even sure if that IS the best way to do this. and no idea how to handle multiple textures in one object.
Any pointers or at least information on parsing .x files, if that is the way to go?
