Thanks guys .

Spenceboy98: Do you need help making some stuff in Blender? Are you trying to add or subtract vertices/faces?

You can use the 'Decimate' modifier to reduce faces/vertices of a mesh?

I'm getting this error now:

I changed it and it gives the same with this prompt error:
Unhandled Exception: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct f
ormat.
   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffe
r& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
   at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo in
fo)
   at objConv.Program.Main(String[] args)


What exactly are you typing when running it?

The utility doesnt have much in the way of error checking so you have to be careful how you use it.

I'm typing objconv.exe -x Hand2.obj HAND.8xp

Ooh, but can we get a screenie? Since that is pushing the program about to the limit, it would be interesting to see what it looks like.

Well im afraid there isnt a whole lot to see at the moment, i had to reset the materials in the model. Here is a screenie which doesnt show much really:



Note that this has more than both the Mario and Dark Link head models combined, The details for this model are mostly made up of redundant triangles.

In most cases the same model can be made with a LOT less polygons than normal without affecting the on-calc quality.

Yeah it should range between 12-16 fps with around 40 triangles, depending on how many vertices there are also (if there are lots of shared vertices then the speed should be better).

Here is an xwing test model that is 34 triangles and runs at ~18.5fps:

Sure thing! I had plans on turning the engine into a lib that can be accessed by other programs so that people can make use of the 3D routines. (xLIB3D anyone? lolol just kidding )

This will have to happen after i have at least fixed the back-face culling and implemented polygon clipping (which will unfortunately be a little speed hit :S).

This is a demo with 9 cubes (12 polygons each, so 108 triangles for the 'world') all translated into 16-bit space, running at around 17fps with free movement. I have a basic 'level-of-detail' system running where the number of polygons processed for any particular 'model' is dependent on its distance from the camera. This gives a bit of a speed boost and should allow for more complex scenes: