VDrift Graphical Upgrades

[zimluura]

ok! got it to compile and run. but i was really expecting to see something here. as it stands i'm not even seeing the car body get loaded up in the "start practice preview".

is that what you were seeing?

also, i should really ask this: exactly how does vdrift store its texture coordinates? are they done as part of the face indexes (like immediate mode ogl) or done on a per vertex level (like a vbo where you have to duplicate some vertexes to emulate a vertex with different uv coords depending on which face is being drawn)?

i'm pretty sure it's the second example (because there's a shader directory), but the tire app i built was like the first example. but i want to make sure.

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edit1: messing around a little, returned right after the mesh_gen function starts. and i still don't see anything in the preview (still crashes on going into the game).

i see this in the console:
ERROR: Loading log: Error loading model: datacarparts/wheel/5_spoke_m.joe
Error generating wheel mesh for wheel 0

which my first guess would be a backslash missing somewhere in the source, but it might just be a messed up error message.

even so that we're getting an error message is on the joe file is sorta strange. (looked ok to me). am i correct in thinking a vertexarray with nothing inside it shouldn't disrupt the loading of other things?



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edit 2: after searching for where sharedpartspath, err letme make that grepping. i decided to just duplicate the data in the directory it was searching. and got it to load the wheel meshes. and the the tire mesh got generated. and...man, that is messed up!!!!

ok, letme try to recode it then. is there any slick way to draw vertexes?