Won't load glb?

[peardox]

Just bought it on itch and tried dragging + dropping some very simple test models

The error message is meaningless

Extremely simple test model - cube with GMS's XYZ orientation markings

uvcube.zip

It's supposed to look like this (GM code - ignore tilemap layer behind model)

I also tried loading your ground.vbuff from ImportOBJ which it also can't read

Why no Open in file menu? Drag&Drop isn't overly obvious without reading itch blurb.

[DragoniteSpam]

vbuff is an exported format, it's just a file of binary data without context (this is usually provided by the vertex format when you draw it)

failing to load glb is interesting though, that looks like a generic assimp error, i feel like it should be able to handle that...

[peardox]

Yeah, I guessed that's what vbuff was - no reason you can't read it...

I never got on with assimp, does weird stuff with gtlf which is easy enough to read in the first place - especially cos texturegroup_add can take a buffer allowing direct reading of a GLB's binary (with a little extra required to decode image size - PNG was easy, JPG a todo..)

[DragoniteSpam]

Could you send me the glb that isn't loading for you? The ones my my testing models folder all load correctly.

[peardox]

uvcube.zip in the first post (below first, above second image)

Lots more samples at https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Assets (random selection also all fail)

[peardox]

Just noticed my uvtest model has a badly sized texture - obviuosly a typo - 2038 rather than 2048 (so I'll have to rebuild it)

That shouldn't be an issue though (although it did case problems with my JPEG GML for a while...)

[DragoniteSpam]

So I'm able to load the glb without a generic error (the only ones that are erroring are gltf that link external binary files); the only problem is that textures aren't coming in, and that's because the texture loading code is kind of terrible in general and probably should be rewritten.

Just in case, I updated the assimp DLL, which I recently found that old versions was causing some issues for bbmod model conversion too, so that might or might not help.

I don't see importing vbuff files being that useful since normally that's an export format and the designer will still have the source files around, but if you want it I'll write some UI to let you define the vertex format that it's to be imported with.

[peardox]

Yeah, external files had occurred to me as well but they're a really use (e.g. allowing user defined public textures)

I had considered assimp being in my path as a possible issue but confirmed that's not it (tested in a VM with base Windows in it)

Even swapping the dll for a newest didn't help

The source is GMS Beta and completely different to the itch one with no public releases. Dragged + Dropped onto that but nothing obvious happened?

The ONLY reason I had for reading vbuff was to alter the supplied one to add orientation markings (change colours of the corner quads)