Optimizing my X-Files (DirectX)

[Firlefanz]

Hello,

I need a tool (free) that can load an DirectX X-File, and then optimize it (so it gets smaller in memory usage) and then again saves it.

Any ideas please?
I already found some free tools, but most cannot import .x :roll:

Firle

[Clootie]

What do you mean by "optimize - reducing .X file size"? Removing some (bad) vertices? Or something other?

Btw, if your mesh is saved in text .X file format you can save it in binary form - this will reduce file size to single digit percent of it's text version.

[Firlefanz]

Hello,

I tried myself to make a small tool to saves it in binary, but everytime I save I get an error exception (error in d3dx9_28.dll) and receive a 0 byte file.

Here my code:



unit Unit1;

interface

uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls,D3DX9, OmegaScreen;

type
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Button1: TButton;
Button2: TButton;
OpenDialog1: TOpenDialog;
SaveDialog1: TSaveDialog;
XenScreen: TOmegaScreen;
procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
procedure FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
private
{ Private-Deklarationen }
public
{ Public-Deklarationen }
end;

var
Form1: TForm1;
mesh: ID3DXMesh;
_pAdjacency, _pD3DXMtrlBuffer : ID3DXBuffer;
_d3dxMaterials : PD3DXMaterial;
nummaterials: dword;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if opendialog1.execute then
D3DXLoadMeshFromX(pChar(opendialog1.Files[0]), D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM,
xenScreen.Device, @_pAdjacency, @_pD3DXMtrlBuffer,nil,
@NumMaterials, Mesh);
end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if savedialog1.execute then
D3DXSaveMeshToX(pChar(opendialog1.Files[0]),Mesh, @_pAdjacency, @_pD3DXMtrlBuffer,
nil,NumMaterials,D3DXF_FILEFORMAT_BINARY);
end;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
xenscreen.Init;
end;

end.


Using latest Clootie headers with Omega for screen component.

So I tried to save it to binary but reduce vertices that are not seen or very small or something would be also great.

Thanks,
Firle

[Clootie]

When saving mesh to file you should pass not pointers to ID3DXBuffer, but pointers to actual data.

So, something like this:

p1:= pAdjacency.GetBufferPointer;
p2:= pD3DXMtrlBuffer.GetBufferPointer;

D3DXSaveMeshToX(pChar(opendialog1.Files[0]),Mesh, p1, p2, nil, NumMaterials, D3DXF_FILEFORMAT_BINARY);

[Firlefanz]

Thanks Clootie, I'll try that :D

Firle