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sinsro
sinsro

Reputation: 915

XNA 4.0 load external 3D objects on Windows

I'm working on a project where my XNA 4.0 powered 3D engine needs to load external fbx models input by the user, in run time rather than in the default compile time way.

I understand XNA is built to bundle/process complex resources compile time to make the runtime smaller, but as I only need to target Windows I wonder if it is possible to load models with textures externally, and if so, how?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1050

Answers (2)

Joel Martinez
Joel Martinez

Reputation: 47749

Yes, as @Andrew mentioned, using the built in content pipeline would require a developer install so that the content pipeline is available. Of course, you can parse it yourself and pull out the information at runtime to avoid that dependency. There are people out there doing it ... for example, the guys at sandswept studios have an API to do this, and are willing to discuss commercial agreements (just contact them):
http://thunderfist-podium.blogspot.com/2008/09/fbx-and-xna-part-1-fbx-format-and.html

Upvotes: 1

sinsro
sinsro

Reputation: 915

I found the solution here:

http://create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/sample/winforms_series_2

Upvotes: 0

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