SZS file format explained

[thakis]

Getting somewhere...
Took me some time, but now I understand the tristrip data format well enough to display triangles for the whole scene - here is a screenie. Theoretically textures and normals are now working as well (the normals used in the screenie weren't loaded from the file but computed from the triangle data), I just have to implement it (but I know where to read the data from in the file).

Next steps are support for animated models (they still look somewhat horked because I need to take joint data into account for them, what I'm not doing at the moment [and I don't understand the joint data format at the moment]) and support for models with more than one texture.

[smcd]

Whoah, nice progress

[Azimer]

I agree. This is quite interesting. I hope more people look into making use of gamecube games in a non-emulation way. Thanks for sharing all your progress.

[thakis]

Now with colors but without lighting - seems as if the lighting is included in the vertex colors anyway.

[thakis]

Texture.

[thakis]

Textures in the airport level. Because there's only one texture per file supported at the moment, you can choose which part of the map looks correct - the rest looks kinda weird with the chosen texture :-)

Below are shots with the airplane texture and the mountain texture enabled.

[_Chrono_]

wow awesome progress thakis
is that the only scene you can view at the moment?

[thakis]

No, I thought it's nice to always use the same scene so one can better see the progress. All scenes work. Name your favorite one and I'll post a screenie ;-)

[_Chrono_]

id have to play the game to know the scenes (or levels). so any scene qould do

[thakis]

Play it, it's a great game! Here's the town (looks *really* weird 'cause it uses lots of different textures)...