MSH

MSH (mesh) files define a 3D mesh, to be referenced by MMH files when creating models in the game.

MSH files are defined using XML source files with the extension .msh.xml. These files are run through the GraphicsProcessorMSH.exe program (found in the Dragon Age\Toolset\export_processors directory) to produce binary files that can be used by the game directly.

GraphicsProcessorMSH [-outdir <out-dir>] [-platform <x360,pc,ps3>] [options] [-indir<input-directory> / <input-file>]

Other options include:

-mmdtogff^{[Undocumented]}

msh.xml schema in RELAX NG 1.0 format

See Relax NG Specs for information on the RELAX NG 1.0 XML schema format. For a free converter/verifier, see jing-trang.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<grammar ns="" xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0" datatypeLibrary="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes">
  <start>
    <element name="ModelMeshData">
      <attribute name="Name">
        <data type="NCName"/>
      </attribute>
      <attribute name="Version">
        <data type="integer"/>
      </attribute>
      <zeroOrMore>
        <element name="MeshGroup">
          <attribute name="Name">
            <data type="NCName"/>
          </attribute>
          <optional>
            <attribute name="Optimize">
              <data type="NCName"/> <!-- "all", "none", or "indices" -->
            </attribute>
          </optional>
          <optional>
            <attribute name="optimize"> <!-- Appears to be the same as Optimize, apparently both capitalizations are allowed-->
              <data type="NCName"/>
            </attribute>
          </optional>
          <oneOrMore>
            <element name="Data">
              <optional>
                <attribute name="ElementCount">
                  <data type="integer"/> <!-- If semantic is not "indices", this count gives the number of tuples in the CDATA. -->
                </attribute>
              </optional>
              <optional>
                <attribute name="IndexCount">
                  <data type="integer"/> <!-- If semantic is "indices", this count gives the number of integers in the data's CDATA. -->
                </attribute>
              </optional>
              <optional>
                <attribute name="IndexType">
                  <data type="NCName"/> <!-- Every example of this has the value "Index32", without exception. -->
                </attribute>
              </optional>
              <attribute name="Semantic">
                <data type="NCName"/> <!-- "POSITION", "Indices", "TEXCOORD", "TANGENT", "BINORMAL", "NORMAL", "BLENDWEIGHT", "BLENDINDICES" -->
              </attribute>
              <optional>
                <attribute name="Type">
                  <data type="NCName"/> <!-- indicates how many elements and of what type are in the tuples in the CDATA. Values are "Float4" (four floating point numbers), "Float2" (two floating point numbers), "Short4" (four integers) -->
                </attribute>
              </optional>
              <text/> <!-- contains CDATA with tuples of numbers. For example, a Float2 type MSH had this: <![CDATA[0.195959 0.999994 0.195959 0.266686 0 0.266683 0 1. 0.999999 0.999994 1. 0.166668 ]]> -->
            </element>
          </oneOrMore>
        </element>
      </zeroOrMore>
    </element>
  </start>
</grammar>

Constants

Type enum:

            /// 1 float 
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT1 = 0,
            /// 2 floats
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT2 = 1,
            /// 3 floats
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT3 = 2,
            /// 4 floats
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT4 = 3,
            /// 4-byte color
            DECLTYPE_COLOR = 4,
            /// 4 unsigned bytes
            DECLTYPE_UBYTE4 = 5,
            /// 2 shorts
            DECLTYPE_SHORT2 = 6,
            /// 4 shorts
            DECLTYPE_SHORT4 = 7,
            /// 4 normalized bytes
            DECLTYPE_UBYTE4N = 8,
            /// 2 normalized shorts
            DECLTYPE_SHORT2N = 9,
            /// 4 normalized shorts
            DECLTYPE_SHORT4N = 10,
            /// 2 normalized unsigned shorts
            DECLTYPE_USHORT2N = 11,
            /// 4 normalized unsigned shorts
            DECLTYPE_USHORT4N = 12,
            /// 3d unsigned 10/10/10 format
            DECLTYPE_UDEC3 = 13,
            /// 3d unsigned 10/10/10 normalized
            DECLTYPE_DEC3N = 14,
            /// 2 16-bit floats
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT16_2 = 15,
            /// 4 16-bit unsigned floats
            DECLTYPE_FLOAT16_4 = 16,
            DECLTYPE_UNUSED = 0xffffffff

Usage enum:

            /// Position
            DECLUSAGE_POSITION = 0,
            /// Blend weights
            DECLUSAGE_BLENDWEIGHT = 1,
            /// Blend indices
            DECLUSAGE_BLENDINDICES = 2,
            /// Normal
            DECLUSAGE_NORMAL = 3,
            /// Point Size 
            DECLUSAGE_PSIZE = 4,
            /// Texture coordinates
            DECLUSAGE_TEXCOORD = 5,
            /// Tangent vector
            DECLUSAGE_TANGENT = 6,
            /// binormal vector
            DECLUSAGE_BINORMAL = 7,
            /// tessellation factor
            DECLUSAGE_TESSFACTOR = 8,
            /// PositionT 
            DECLUSAGE_POSITIONT = 9,
            /// color channel
            DECLUSAGE_COLOR = 10,
            /// fog value
            DECLUSAGE_FOG = 11,
            /// depth 
            DECLUSAGE_DEPTH = 12,
            /// sample
            DECLUSAGE_SAMPLE = 13,
            // error/other/unset
            DECLUSAGE_UNUSED = 0xffffffff