it means that the python tool won't be needed anymore.

i already have a mesh generation algorithm which works in c now. unfortunately it's brute force and quite slow (~15 seconds for a 20000 polygon mesh) but i don't think it's a big problem since the result can be saved. doing an optimized version in c would be too much work. in python there are data structures which make it easy to make a much faster version even with python being an interpreted language but using an external tool is a bit cumbersome. i think it's nicer to have everything in the plugin.



there will be 3 dll functions:

Code:

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dllfunction ent_exportmesh(entity, filename);
dllfunction ent_importmesh(entity, filename);
dllfunction ent_loadseconduvset(entity1, entity2); // this part got done by the python tool previously

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Code:

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	// example 1
	
	// load model with texture uv-set
	e1 = ent_create("landscape.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	e1.material = mtl_lightmap;
	
	// load model with light map uv-set	
	e2 = ent_create("landscape_lm.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	
	// generate and assign a new mesh with both uv-sets
	ent_loadseconduvset(e1, e2);
	ent_remove(e2);
	
	// save mesh with both uv-sets for faster reuse
	ent_exportmesh(e1, "landscape_lm.mesh");
	
	
	
	ent_remove(e1);
	
	
	
	// example 2
	
	// if you already have the mesh file you can load it like that
	e1 = ent_create("landscape.mdl", nullvector, 0);
	e1.material = mtl_lightmap;
	ent_importmesh(e1, "landscape_lm.mesh");

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