3D - General information

Formats for assets in the game

3D assets

Mashinky engine is able to load

• *.x (DirectX mesh) format. It is native format for DirectX applications, fast, variable, 3 versions (text, binary, binary compressed). It supports multiple animations, adding meta data etc.

Take a look into how to setup 3D modeling tool to prepare exporter and your 3d environment

2D assets

Mashinky engine is able to load many different formats:

• *.dds - preferred. DirectDraw Surface, it is native format for DirectX. Industry standard, able to store in many different bit formats, very fast for loading, custom mipmaps, etc.
• *.bmp
• *.jpg
• *.png
• *.tiff
• ...

Take a look into how to setup 2D editor to prepare exporter and your 2d editor