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[sturatt]

I guess ill start with what im trying to do. What i want to do is write an exporter for milkshape (a 3d modeling program) to write a custom model format. Ive looked into it a bit, and have come across something that im not quite sure how to handle. I always assumed that for bones and animation, there would be a very simple hierarchy:

bones have meshes, meshes have vertices
bones -> meshes ->vertices

After looking at milkshape, ive discovered that instead of that, the meshes and triangles formed from the vertices are seperate from the bones entirely, only the vertices are connected to the bones. This makes sense, since if have a mesh with two bones and you move one, you want to triangles between the bones to stretch, instead of creating a hole in the mesh.

my question about the psp is this: i only know of one way to draw with the gu, and thats sceGu(m)DrawArray(...) which takes a vertex and index list. If i am trying to draw a triangle that has say each of its vertices attached to a seperate bone, then each vertex will need to be transformed according to that bone right? how would i draw this triangle whose vertices are each transformed differently?

ive only ever thought about doing something like this

transform(x,y,z)
drawTriangles(index list, vertex list)
transform(x,y,z)
drawTriangles(index list, vertex list)

but i dont see how that can work if a triangle's vertices might need to be transformed differently

I hope that all made some sort of sense, and im sorry if this is a simple/stupid question =\

[rapso]

[sturatt]