I have filled out the frame structure completely and I have filled out the animation controller.

But GetAttributeTable gives me 0 as the number of attributes from m_pMesh2?

pOrigMesh is the mesh who is loaded from assimp.

I use the D3DXCreateMesh method to do it...

Filling out with vertexes, indices, textures, materials

I also filled out the skininfo,

I just retrieve all the skininfo from assimp

and use

D3DXCreateSkinInfo....

Any ideas why the attribute table has no attributes/or basically no attribute table at all?

Thanks

Jack

bool meshLoader::GenerateSkinnedMesh(GameNode* pCurFrame)
{
    if (pCurFrame == NULL)
        return true;

    // init skinned mesh
    mesh *pCurMeshContainer = (mesh*)pCurFrame->m_mesh;
    while (pCurMeshContainer != NULL)
    {
        // check if skinned mesh
        if (pCurMeshContainer->m_skininfo != NULL)
        {     

            //if (!pCurMeshContainer->pAdjacency)
            //{
            //    pCurMeshContainer->pAdjacency = new DWORD[ pCurMeshContainer->pOrigMesh->GetNumFaces() * 3 ];
            //    pCurMeshContainer->pOrigMesh->GenerateAdjacency(1e-6f, pCurMeshContainer->pAdjacency);
                //pCurMeshContainer->MeshData.pMesh->OptimizeInplace(D3DXMESHOPT_VERTEXCACHE|D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT,
                //    pCurMeshContainer->pAdjacency, 0, 0, 0);
            //}    
               
            pCurMeshContainer->pOrigMesh->CloneMeshFVF(
                D3DXMESH_MANAGED, pCurMeshContainer->pOrigMesh->GetFVF(),
                m_pDevice, &pCurMeshContainer->m_pMesh2);
            pCurMeshContainer->m_pMesh2->GetAttributeTable(NULL, &pCurMeshContainer->dwNumAttributeGroups);
            pCurMeshContainer->pAttributeTable.resize(pCurMeshContainer->dwNumAttributeGroups);
            pCurMeshContainer->m_pMesh2->GetAttributeTable(&pCurMeshContainer->pAttributeTable[0], NULL);
            pCurMeshContainer->dwNumBones = pCurMeshContainer->m_skininfo->GetNumBones();
            // Allocate space for blend matrices            
            pCurMeshContainer->pBoneMatrices.resize(pCurMeshContainer->dwNumBones);
            
        }
        //m_dwNumMeshes++;
        pCurMeshContainer = (mesh*)pCurMeshContainer->m_pNextChild;
    }

    if (pCurFrame->pFrameFirstChild != NULL)
        if (!GenerateSkinnedMesh(pCurFrame->pFrameFirstChild))
            return false;

    if (pCurFrame->pFrameSibling != NULL)
        if (!GenerateSkinnedMesh(pCurFrame->pFrameSibling))
            return false;

    return true;
}

I have filled out the frame structure completely and I have filled out the animation controller.

a bit of work there! hats off to you!

take a look at this:

// load a mesh
void Zloadmesh(char *s,int dynamic)    // dynamic: 0=D3DXMESH_MANAGED.  1=D3DXMESH_DYNAMIC.  2=D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM
{
HRESULT h;
char s2[100];
LPD3DXBUFFER pMaterialbuffer=NULL;
DWORD nummaterials=0;
LPD3DXMESH a,b;
//DWORD *c;
if (DBnummeshes >= maxmeshes)
	{
	Zmsg2("Mesh database full!"); 
	exit(1);
	}
//c=(DWORD *)malloc(3*200000*sizeof(DWORD));
switch(dynamic)
    {
	case 0: 
			h=D3DXLoadMeshFromX(s,D3DXMESH_MANAGED,Zd3d_device_ptr,NULL,&pMaterialbuffer,NULL,&nummaterials,&a);
			if (h != D3D_OK) { strcpy_s(s2,100,"Error loading "); strcat_s(s2,100,s); Zmsg2(s2); exit(1); }
//			a->GenerateAdjacency(0.0f,c);
	//		a->OptimizeInplace(D3DXMESHOPT_COMPACT | D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT | D3DXMESHOPT_VERTEXCACHE | D3DXMESHOPT_STRIPREORDER,c,NULL,NULL,NULL);
			a->GetIndexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.ib);
		    mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numfaces=(int)a->GetNumFaces();
			mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numverts=(int)a->GetNumVertices();
			a->GetVertexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.vb);
			a->Release();               
			break;
	case 1:
			h=D3DXLoadMeshFromX(s,D3DXMESH_DYNAMIC,Zd3d_device_ptr,NULL,&pMaterialbuffer,NULL,&nummaterials,&b);
			if (h != D3D_OK) { strcpy_s(s2,100,"Error loading "); strcat_s(s2,100,s); Zmsg2(s2); exit(1); }
//			b->GenerateAdjacency(0.0f,c);
//			b->OptimizeInplace(D3DXMESHOPT_COMPACT | D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT | D3DXMESHOPT_VERTEXCACHE | D3DXMESHOPT_STRIPREORDER,c,NULL,NULL,NULL);
			b->CloneMeshFVF(D3DXMESH_WRITEONLY | D3DXMESH_DYNAMIC,ZFVF,Zd3d_device_ptr,&a);
			b->Release();
			a->GetIndexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.ib);
		    mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numfaces=(int)a->GetNumFaces();
			mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numverts=(int)a->GetNumVertices();
			a->GetVertexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.vb);
			a->Release();
			break;
	case 2:
			h=D3DXLoadMeshFromX(s,D3DXMESH_SYSTEMMEM,Zd3d_device_ptr,NULL,&pMaterialbuffer,NULL,&nummaterials,&a);
			if (h != D3D_OK) { strcpy_s(s2,100,"Error loading "); strcat_s(s2,100,s); Zmsg2(s2); exit(1); }
//			a->GenerateAdjacency(0.0f,c);
	//		a->OptimizeInplace(D3DXMESHOPT_COMPACT | D3DXMESHOPT_ATTRSORT | D3DXMESHOPT_VERTEXCACHE | D3DXMESHOPT_STRIPREORDER,c,NULL,NULL,NULL);
			a->GetIndexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.ib);
		    mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numfaces=(int)a->GetNumFaces();
			mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.numverts=(int)a->GetNumVertices();
			a->GetVertexBuffer(&mesh[DBnummeshes].mesh2.vb);
			a->Release();               
			break;
	}
//free(c);
strcpy_s(mesh[DBnummeshes].name,s);
!= pMaterialbuffer NULL
    c pMaterialbuffer->Release
    .
DBnummeshes++;
}

the part you'll be interested in is

LPD3DXMESH a;

DWORD *c;

a->GenrateAdjacency(0.0f,&c);