DIRECTX MESH LIBRARY (DirectXMesh)

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Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.



July 8, 2015



This package contains DirectXMesh, a shared source library for performing various geometry

content processing operations including generating normals and tangent frames, triangle

adjacency computations, and vertex cache optimization.



The source is written for Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, or 2015. It is recommended that you

make use of the Windows 8.1 SDK and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later.



Details on using the Windows 8.1 SDK with VS 2010 are described on the Visual C++ Team Blog:

<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/11/23/using-the-windows-8-sdk-with-visual-studio-2010-configuring-multiple-projects.aspx>



These components are designed to work without requiring any content from the DirectX SDK. For details,

see "Where is the DirectX SDK?" <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663275.aspx>.



DirectXMesh\

    This contains the DirectXMesh library.



    Note that the majority of the header files here are intended for internal implementation

    of the library only (DirectXMeshP.h and scoped.h). Only DirectXMesh.h is meant as a

    'public' header for the library.



Utilities\

    This contains helper code related to mesh processing that is not general enough to be

    part of the DirectXMesh library.



         WaveFrontReader.h - Contains a simple C++ class for reading mesh data from a WaveFront OBJ file.



Meshconvert\

    This DirectXMesh sample is an implementation of the "meshconvert" command-line texture utility

    from the DirectX SDK utilizing DirectXMesh rather than D3DX.



    Note this tool does not support legacy .X files, but can export CMO, SDKMESH, and VBO files.



All content and source code for this package are subject to the terms of the MIT License.

<http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>.



Documentation is available at <https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXMesh/wiki>.



For the latest version of DirectXMesh, bug reports, etc. please visit the project site.



http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=324981





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RELEASE HISTORY

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July 8, 2015

    Minor SAL fix and project cleanup



March 27, 2015

    Added projects for Windows apps Technical Preview

    Fixed attributes usage for OptimizeFacesEx

    meshconvert: fix when importing from .vbo

    Minor code cleanup



November 14, 2014

    meshconvert: sample improvements and fixes

    Added workarounds for potential compiler bug when using VB reader/writer



October 28, 2014

    meshconvert command-line sample

    Added VBReader/VBWriter::GetElement method

    Added more ComputeTangentFrame overloads

    Explicit calling-convention annotation for public headers

    Windows phone 8.1 platform support

    Minor code and project cleanup



June 27, 2014

    Original release