I randomly looked up a bunch of different pointers though, and they all point there (this is in Fox's Neutral costume btw). And to confirm we're talking about the right struct, I'm referring to the value that follows Scale, [unknown], and Stride, in the Vertex Attribute Array; the last value (a pointer) in that struct.
But now I'm not sure I'm interpreting the structures correctly. I'm reading
@revel8n's "melee dat format" thread on the matter. I'm in the third post, on the ATTR_DATA struct. It looks like the vertexAttrArray pointer in POBJ_Data (the Mesh Struct) is actually pointing to a list of multiple Vertex Attribute Array structures, not just a single structure as I first thought. But still, I see multiple of these (within the same list, and also from other mesh structures entirely) all with a dataOffset of zero. So it seems my underlying question remains the same. Even if that is simply the start of the data block, why would they all be pointing to the same data? Maybe I'm just not understanding what the data in this location is supposed to be. It is vertex data, or would that really be in the Display List? I originally thought that the data pointed to by the Vertex Attribute Array structures would be data specific to that one particular mesh. Is it actually that the game renders a small part of a mesh, and then re-uses that repeatedly in several different meshes across various separate parts of the model? Maybe to reduce mesh creation overhead and save on processing? So does the game just create all meshes -or all unique subdivisions of the meshes that will be used in the model- up front, and then once that's done, pulls copies that set to build the full model?
For any explanation, keep in mind for your term usage that I have no background in game modeling. So I don't even know what a "primitive" is.
I'd guess it's some sub-component of a mesh, like a point, but with attributes. Guess that's something for me to google later when I have more time.
Edit: Ah. So the most succinct definition of a primitive I could find is, "predefined polygonal meshes created by the modeling environment."
). My best guess is that if you did copy over some vertices, they weren't the ones that were edited to make the Wolf skin (they were just vanilla Fox's). Hence why nothing went wrong.
