Apply bone tranforms when importing FBX in XNA
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Published on 2012-11-27T15:12:01Z
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Preconditions: I have some models, that does only contain some meshes and one texture. There is no animation within the model. An example: a model of a table.
I want to draw the Model with a custom effect, so I have to swap the effect after loading the model. In order to draw them correctly, I have to apply the bone transformation manually on each draw for each mesh and effect as can be seen here. So there are two questions:
- Is there a option during import that allows my to apply the bone transformation on all vertices, so that during draw call I should not have to do this?
- Is there a option during import that merges all vertices into a Vertex- and IndexBuffer, that allows me to draw the whole model with just one call?
I'm pretty sure that the build-in "Autodesk FBX - XNA Framework" does not support this features, but maybe there is an other imported available or an other possibility I missed.
The aim is to speed up rendering a little bit especially by using instancing. So having one VertexBuffer to draw at one time would be pretty nice.
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