PlayStation Development Network

I finally managed to figure out how the 3D graphics system of the PlayStation works and was able to make a nice little sample for you guys to learn from as there hasn't been a good 3D graphics example for a long while.



Unfortunately, this sample only uses flat shaded triangles but I might make another similar sample soon but with texture mapped triangles in a form of a little 3D game engine.

Agreed. We definitely need more 3d stuff.

I'm looking to start making 3D homebrew PSX games and this really helped. I made a script to export a model from Blender into this same format you're using, with the exception that it doesn't store duplicate vertices and instead contains an array of indices to the shared vertices. I realize the vertex data is stored as shorts, so this actually uses more memory, but it's more organized this way IMHO. http://pastebin.com/suU9DigB

The only modification I really had to make to get it to work this way (aside from changing the mesh name) was to change to Definitely looking forward to any more progress you make!

very good, will create a table to write text and numbers.

Good stuff.

Re: the dangling comment about RotMeshPrimS_F3; my reading of the documentation is that the MeshPrimS functions expect a triangle strip — the first three vertices define one triangle, then every subsequent vertex defines one further triangle. You've listed each triangle uniquely — the first three vertices define one triangle, then every subsequent three vertices define one further triangle. So that could be why that didn't work.

can you post the make file?

The MAKEFILE would be basically the same as the one in your 'helowrld' example because of its simplistic primary C file, "primdraw.c".

thank's shadow!