Assignment 7
1. Show a screenshot of your game running.
2. Tell us what references you had to add to the MayaMeshExporter project.​
Project Windows is added, because in MayaMeshExporter.h, <Engine/Windows/Includes.h> is included. As mentioned, this must come before any Maya header files to make sure that windows.h is #included in a consistent way.
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3. Tell us what other projects depend on MayaMeshExporter.
No project depends on MayaMeshExporter. MayaMeshExporter only builds a plug-in for Maya and has nothing to do with other projects.
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4. Tell us whether you exported the unused data (e.g. normals, tangents, bitangents, texture coordinates) to your human-readable file or not. Explain why you made this choice.​
I didn't export the unused data for three reasons. First, too many parameters make the human-readable files (json formats for me) hard to read and find useful data. Second, unused data wastes memory both on disk and during runtime, and the waste can become significant if there are a large number of vertex. Third, it is still easy to add them afterwards if they are needed.
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5. Show a screenshot of you debugging your plug-in.​
I didn't export the unused data for three reasons. First, too many parameters make the human-readable files (json formats for me) hard to read and find useful data. Second, unused data wastes memory both on disk and during runtime, and the waste can become significant if there are a large number of vertices. Third, it is still easy to add them afterwards if they are needed.
6. Tell us what happens if you try to load a model with too many vertices. Your code should gracefully handle this rather than crash or render something incorrectly.​
There are two checks for the vertice number. First is in the exporter plugin, which automatically fails to export in Maya. Second is when parsing json files, the program detects the number of vertices. If it exceeds the limit, the program will print a message in the log, and not rendering this mesh.