combine assimp bone data with other vertex data - assimp

Question

My problem is that I am trying to load in joint/bone data from an fbx file in Direct X c++ using Assimp, but I want to store the eights and indices inside the same vertex struct that I store position, uv, etc.
I can make a loop for every vertex, but I also want to make a loop over each bone.
That means I can't have both the joint data and the other data in the same loop.
Should I create multilpe vertec objects then combine them afterwards?
I also am not sure how to find the bone ID and the weight for each vertex, I am counting on 4 per bone, but maybe I should not have that last loop at all?
Im not sure how to set it up.
I would appreciate some help, thank you very much.
for (UINT k = 0; k < currentMesh->mNumBones; k++)
{
aiBone* bone = currentMesh->mBones[k];
for (UINT m = 0; m < bone->mNumWeights; m++)
{
aiVertexWeight weight = bone->mWeights[m];
for (UINT n = 0; n < 4; n++)
{
//if
}
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////
for (UINT k = 0; k < currentMesh->mNumVertices; k++)
{
Vertex vert;
vert.position.x = currentMesh->mVertices[k].x;
vert.position.y = currentMesh->mVertices[k].y;
vert.position.z = currentMesh->mVertices[k].z;
vert.TexCoord.x = currentMesh->mTextureCoords[0][k].x;
vert.TexCoord.y = currentMesh->mTextureCoords[0][k].y;
vert.normal.x = currentMesh->mNormals[k].x;
vert.normal.y = currentMesh->mNormals[k].y;
vert.normal.z = currentMesh->mNormals[k].z;
vertexVector.push_back(vert);
}

Answer 1

for (UINT k = 0; k < currentMesh->mNumBones; k++)
{
aiBone* bone = currentMesh->mBones[k];
for (UINT m = 0; m < bone->mNumWeights; m++)
{
aiVertexWeight weight = bone->mWeights[m];
if (vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.x == 0)
{
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.x = k;
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].weights.x = weight.mWeight;
}
else if (vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.y == 0)
{
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.y = k;
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].weights.y = weight.mWeight;
}
else if (vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.z == 0)
{
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.z = k;
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].weights.z = weight.mWeight;
}
else if (vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.w == 0)
{
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].joints.w = k;
vertexVector[weight.mVertexId].weights.w = weight.mWeight;
}
}
}
I accessed the same structure I already have and added the stuff afterwards.