Not able to load MarbleMaze SDK meshes

[ata6502]

The MarbleMaze SDK sample (DirectX/C++) includes two SDK meshes:

• marble2.sdkmesh
• maze1.sdkmesh

The DirectXTK Model Viewer shows an error message when trying to load the above meshes: "Error loading a model". The code throws an exception in the CreateFromSDKMESH method: "Loading BigEndian SDKMESH files not supported".

Any plans to support BigEndian SDK meshes?

[walbourn]

Can you point to the download for this SDK?

[ata6502]

The MarbleMaze sdkmesh files are from the Microsoft's "DirectX marble maze game sample": https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-appsample-marble-maze/tree/master/C%2B%2B/MarbleMaze_VS2017/Media/Models

I just wanted to open them using DirectXTK Model Viewer but after digging into the files themselves, I found that they differ in many places from the DXTK Model Viewer's expectations, for example:

• Although the MarbleMaze sdkmesh files specify BigEndian = True the MarbleMaze loader seems to ignore it. DXTK Model Viewer on the other hand throws an exception.
• The InputLayout data is not used by the MarbleMaze loader. It contains "garbage" such as D3DDECLTYPE = 205 and Offset = 52685. DXTK Model Viewer tries to analyze it and throws an exception.

[ata6502]

I guess, one solution may be to "clean up" the MarbleMaze sdkmesh files so DXTK Model Viewer would not throw exceptions.