Just realized maybe this doesn't fit in this sub-forum but oh well

I'm making an exporter plugin for Maya and I want to export a non-triangulated mesh, while still outputting triangle data, not quad/n-gon data.

Using MItMeshPolygon, I am doing the following:

for (; !polyIter.isDone(); polyIter.next())
{
  //Get points and normals from current polygon
  MPointArray vts;
  polyIter.getPoints(vts);
  MVectorArray nmls;
  polyIter.getNormals(nmls);
  
  //Get number of triangles in current polygon
  int numberOfTriangles;
  polyIter.numTriangles(numberOfTriangles);
  
  //Loop through all triangles
  for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTriangles; i++)
  {
    //Get points and vertexList for this triangle.
    //vertexList is used to index into the polygon verts and normals.
    MPointArray points   = {};
    MIntArray vertexList = {};
    polyIter.getTriangle(i, points, vertexList, MSpace::kObject);
    
    //For each vertex in this triangle
    for (int v = 0; v < 3; v++)
    {
      //Get point and normal
      UINT vi = polyIter.vertexIndex(vertexList[v]);
      UINT ni = polyIter.normalIndex(vertexList[v]);
      
      MPoint _v = vts[vi];
      MFloatVector _n = nmls[ni];
      
      //Create vertex
      Vertex_pos3nor3uv2 vert = {};
      
      vert.posX = _v.x;
      vert.posY = _v.y;
      vert.posZ = _v.z * -1.0;
      
      vert.norX = _n.x;
      vert.norY = _n.y;
      vert.norZ = _n.z * -1.0;

      vert.u = 0.0;
      very.v = 0.0;
      
      verts.push_back(vert);
    }
  }
}

Doing this only gives me half the triangles I'm supposed to get and the result is very distorted.
Link above is a picture of a cube exported this way.

Edit: I've also tried indexing into the entire mesh vertex array like this:
 

MPointArray vts;
meshFn.getPoints(vts);
MFloatVectorArray nmls;
meshFn.getNormals(nmls);

//....

UINT vi = polyIter.vertexIndex(vertexList[v]);
UINT ni = polyIter.normalIndex(vertexList[v]);

MPoint       _v = vts[vi];
MFloatVector _n = nmls[vi];

I can't figure out what's wrong with my code.

Any ideas?

you could treat every face that has more than 3 verts as triangle fan polygon so you could put a vertex inside that polyand split it into triangles?

35 minutes ago, WiredCat said:

you could treat every face that has more than 3 verts as triangle fan polygon so you could put a vertex inside that polyand split it into triangles?

While I suppose that would work I, would like to understand how to get it the 'normal' way, i.e. get each triangle through getTriangle()

EDIT:

Doing what @WiredCat said I got it to work, so if no one knows why my original solution didn't work it's not the end of the world.

New code:

for (int i = 0; i < numberOfTriangles; i++)
{
	//vN = 0, 1+i, 2+i

	//Get positions
	Vertex_pos3nor3uv2 v1, v2, v3 = {};
	MPoint p1 = vts[polyIter.vertexIndex(0)];
	MPoint p2 = vts[polyIter.vertexIndex(1+i)];
	MPoint p3 = vts[polyIter.vertexIndex(2+i)];

	//Get normals
	MVector n1 = nmls[polyIter.normalIndex(0)];
	MVector n2 = nmls[polyIter.normalIndex(1 + i)];
	MVector n3 = nmls[polyIter.normalIndex(1 + i)];

   	//First vertex
	v1.posX = p1.x;
	v1.posY = p1.y;
	v1.posZ = p1.z;

	v1.norX = n1.x;
	v1.norY = n1.y;
	v1.norZ = n1.z;

  		//Second vertex
	v2.posX = p2.x;
	v2.posY = p2.y;
	v2.posZ = p2.z;

	v2.norX = n2.x;
	v2.norY = n2.y;
	v2.norZ = n2.z;

	//Third vertex
	v3.posX = p3.x;
	v3.posY = p3.y;
	v3.posZ = p3.z;

	v3.norX = n3.x;
	v3.norY = n3.y;
	v3.norZ = n3.z;
		
	//Changing order of verts for DirectX
	verts.push_back(v3);
	verts.push_back(v2);
	verts.push_back(v1);				
}