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Re: DirectX and .dat
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Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:54:16 GMT
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Thanks all,
I am going to concetrate on them normals then. I even got some ideas on
how to determn the correct direction for them by examening base lego parts.
But first things first, back to math class for me :)
Roland
rmelkert wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Tim Courtney directed me to this forum on an issue that's bugging me.
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> I am into the Virtual Lego for about a year now and being a programmer
> i started to mess around myself with the dat files etc.
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> Just for the fun of it I started a little project on displaying a ldraw
> model using DirectX 7 (In delphi 5 std). I managed to get the recursive
> reading of the files just fine and I am now able to draw a wireview of a
> model. But I am having problems converting the coordinates into normals
> and vertices. As of a result most of the polygons are kinda inseout or
> something. I found out about the triangle decompiling of directx and
> corrected some of the poly's but it's still not right. (I can place a p
> mugshot on my website of current results if needed)
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> Is there someone here who can direct me to some information about this
> translation problem or exemples.
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> I discovered in this newsgroup the ldview program and it's source, but
> is this compatible with directx or should i shift to opengl alltogether?
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> I am only a beginner in 3D and directx so this project of mine is more a
> learing thing than creating a usefull program at the moment.
>
> Roland
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