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X File Parser (DirectX 3D File Format) Binary Viewer

by bkenwright@xbdev.net

 

Just so you can take a look at the contents of a binary .x file is, I wrote this dump utility which dumps out the contents of the .x file to a edit box.  Its basically a raw dump!  Goes byte by byte through the format and dumps each token it finds and any data to the edit box.

 

 

 

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I've not included the code here, as its basically the same parser I did earlier, but I did a GUI dialog, so that you can open a file, and it dumps it to an edit box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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