Hi,

Just read that there is a framework for Destruction, called APEX.
Its designed for PhysX, and free of charge. Thought it might be a nice feature for the future(since we have PhysX, why not adding something like this?)

EDIT: forgot: APEX is for clothing and other features to.

Nvidia Apex

looks awesome!
I don't know if many people will use it,
but it could put gamestudio a step ahead of other engines.
and it provides eye candy

Yeah it looks great. But it is somehow a large step between saying "add this" and getting it from my point of view, it is more important to get PhysX supported in it's full scale, and maybe later, when this is done, one could go ahead and try to integrate APEX into Gamestudio.

Nevertheless, the most important part of it all would be a solution to 1) get an MDL into APEX and 2) a solution that transforms the output of APEX - however it looks like - into MDLs again

Ofcourse its not an easy task. But i thought using APEX for things like clothing for example, could speedup handling those things(since it seems that its a top layer above tiny nasty functions^^).

The MDL thing:
Havent worked with DirectX yet, but as far as i know, there is only a single interface for a mesh in DirectX. Index, VertexBuffers(EdgeBuffer?). So regardless of the file we are loading, it all uses the same BASIC structure. And current objects are already working with PhysX(Since we have polycollision, the mesh is sent to PhysX)

EDIT: remember the NewtonDLL where you got the entity's DirectX Mesh (ent_getmesh) to add static polygon world collision. And ent_setmesh is the other way in LiteC.

So there must be a proper implementation within the deep sourcecode of 3dgs itself.

I wrote about the MDL stuff in order to use it with their standalone editor. APEX is an artist-driven toolset. So why not taking advantage from that there already exists a nice thing to use?