- Short cut 'D' changed meaning: from drag mode to paint mode, drag mode icon removed, but still can use space bar to invoke drag mode.
- Brush painter directly paint on part deforming map, use shift key plus mouse wheel to change the brush size, also use shift key to change paint mode(Pull/Push).
This commit introduce JavaScript as nodes generation script, to procedurally generate input nodes, which usually should draw by user on the canvas.
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Added Intermediates nodes sometimes will make the whole part’s mesh failed to generate. This commit add a fallback option, when mesh failed to generate, the generator will try again without the intermediate nodes added.
This feature is inspired from Nico J. Dolloso’s model (https://twitter.com/nicodoll).
Before this commit, outdated textured preview will override the updated untextured preview. From user's perspective, sometimes, the mesh preview flashback for a short time span, although it will finally been updated to the latest.
Before this commit, the cut normal of intermediate nodes doesn't consider the original nodes' travesal direction. This will cause self intersection in some cases.
The neck direction match is introduced for matching the human pose to a animal pose, however, current implementation will cause the neck pose not work as edited in pose editor.
Before this commit, the node id and edge id changed when reload from file, then caused the uuid changing and affected the node processing order during mesh generation.
Normally, when pose been generated, foot is always been pulling to the ground by a y-translation. This setting could be used to scale the y-translation. It's usefull for birds fly kind of motion.
When there is tail bone, the spine bone start with "Spine01" and "Spine02", this is to make the spine bone name match with none-tail bones. Why "Spine01"? Because the bone chain is ordered by name, "Spine01" and "Spine02" come before "Spine1".
If one part configured color solubility, the generated color texture seam between the neighbor parts will be gradient filled using this part's color with the specified solubility.
Demo: https://twitter.com/jeremyhu2016/status/1132159910815227904
Mesh layout and thickness adjustment are depend on base plane calculation. In this build, the base plane calculation could be limited to front plane, side plane, and so on, compare to without any limitation in previous implementation.
Uncombined mode could be used to avoid generation of trivial triangles. However, the result will be none-watertight if there is an uncombined mode component.
This would allow other software to contact with Dust3D without limit on the same machine, however, the user still need to enable it by command line "-remoteio".
Finished server creation, implemented two commands: listwindow, selectwindow
Ideally, all the UI should be possible manipulated by remote IO, a local TCP/IP connection, this could be useful to make a VR front end for Dust3D.
This commit add tips for buttons, to show what the function of the button.
Also, fixed a issue, there was no useful infos to tell user when the mesh was failed to generate, now user should see a warning icon with tips to show why the preview disappear.
Thanks the following contributors:
@RubenSandwich <https://github.com/RubenSandwich>
boynet <https://dust3d.discourse.group/u/boynet>
fornclake <https://www.reddit.com/user/fornclake>
When one pose consists of multiple frames, each frame will be hardly see when the opacity is 0.25, this commit change the opacity to 0.5 in pose editor, however, leave it as 0.25 in main modeling interface.
The mouse wheel event got triggered on multiple widgets at the same time, this will cause the rendered model been wrongly zoomed while the intention is resizing the nodes.
Currently, only support "Normal" and "Inversion" modes, "Normal" means normal mesh union, "Inversion" means mesh diff, it behaves like subtract itself from the previous mesh.
If there are images need to be saved, such as the model turnaround reference sheet and texture images, the document saving may be slow because of image encoding to png, now, all the images are pre encoded when the first load, so the document saving could be speed up by avoid the cost of image encoding.
Root bone will have heightAboveGroundLevel parameter to indicate the distance between ground and foot. It's a relative value, comparing with the distance of the first spine head position and foot.
It's very easy to place the wrong side limbs on the pose graphic editor, especially when the reference sheet is not clear. Switch chain side will switch the YZ for the paired chain which contains the selected node. For example, if you select one node from LeftLimb1, and choose the switch chain side from context menu, all the bones, has the name pattern LeftLimb1_Joint* and RightLimb1_Joint*, the YZ of origin will be swapped.
Usually one pose consists of one frame, however, sometimes multiple frames per one reference sheet for a serial of action could be very useful, such as a sprite sheet. Multiple frames per pose is different with one motion, one motion could contains multiple poses. Currently, the duration of one frame is fixed to 0.042s, it's based on the 24 frames per second calculation.
Each bone's head and tail positions are been kept in the pose parameters, that means there are repeated info and we can resolve the bone's head position from parent's tail position if there isn't any positions info been kept for one bone.
This commit include lots of changes for pose editor.
Before, we use buttons to represent the transform controller for bones;
Now, we use nodes and edges to represent the bones, just like the nodes and edges for representing the guide spheres for mesh generating. There are advantages by doing this. Firstly, The edit UI for both mesh and pose are unified, secondly, it is possible to set a reference sheet for pose editing now, this is very important.
This new pose editor is inspired by the Eadweard Muybridge's work.
Limb bones generation failed when two mark joints sit near with each other, because resolving the joint bone's connectivity failed on finding the first neighbor.
This commit fixs this issue by trying to find a nearest joint node.
The difference between tetrapod and generic is that, with tetrapod, all the bones need to be generated are know before mark, so if some marks are missing, there would be a message prompted; with generic, you can mark what ever marks as you wish, and the algorithm is try to create a spine and the limbs growing on the spine, that means, the generated skeleton would be some kind of creature.
Refactor outcome. Move processes of outcome to separated files, and leave the outcome class as clean as possible.
Normal export in glb format is been fixed.
Ambient occlusion baker is been temporarily removed.
The normals haven't fix yet, this commit is mainly preparing for the next coming commits about animation export.
The glTF text format abandoned for the binary format.
Add a crc64 hash check for history keeping to avoid repeated snapshot.
Besides, before, there is a logic error in the undo implementation, which recover the most recent snapshot from undo stack, so user need undo twice and at the second undo get the expected result. This incorrect behavior got fixed.
Many source file name and data type are prefixed by "skeleton" before, now all are refactored.
The class MeshResultContext represents the outcome of mesh generation before, now we have material, pose and animation, so we just rename it as Outcome.
Shortcuts implementation now use QShortcut instead of using the raw key event.
Besides, hold spacebar to temporarily enter drag mode also implemented in this commit, this is very useful in zoom mode.
Before we use a tricky way to share mouse event between model render widget and model edit widget, which forward the event from render widget to edit widget. This will cause some problem, such as the scroll bar of edit widget would not work when it covered by the render model.
Now the mouse event is totally disabled in the render widget, and when there is a need we forward it from edit widget.
Curve editor has been removed from this commit.
Instead of let user edit customized curve for motion, we provider presets. It's much more easy to add motion than before.
Besides adding the PBR material manager, this commit hide some unnecessary features such as toggle wireframes and toggle normal smooth.
Add a regenerate button to indicate mesh is generating by showing a spiner, user can click this button to regenerate if the final result is not good.
Please note that, we generate the texture map by default compared to before we only generate texture map when user export glTF result. Current uvunwrap library cann't handle bad mesh very well, so it will crash on the wires model.
Before, app crash on some machines as been reported in #15 and #16, and cannot easily be reproduced on other machines, such as a virtual box guest system, which make it very hard to trace the root cause.
Now, the offline render is totally removed from the code base, instead of offline-render to image then show the image, we can directly show the parts model in the parts tree using normal opengl widget, and the result looks better than before.
This is the second version of auto-rig, differing from the first version, the user should pick up a rig type, unless no rig will be generated. Currently, only supports Tetrapod without tail. Export as glTF format to test this feature.
This commit also achive better quality quads than before.
This feature could be useful for smooth one component and soften the seam of combination,
This commit also include a crash fix about incorrect use of CGAL.
If multiple nodes or end effector node been selected and rotate, the behaves remain the same as before, however, if single node in the middle been selected and rotated, all the children of this node will be rotated. This could be useful to rotate the tail or leg from joint.
This is useful for making hole surface. For example, without subtraction, it's difficult to make a bucket like mesh, now, you just need to copy and paste the nodes, invert it from the Parts List Panel Context Menu, then down scale and move up a little bit.
This is an experiment test of animation clip generation. Mark leg and spine nodes to enable it or check it with the latest mosquito.ds3 example;
Skeleton offset is been fixed in this commit.
- Remove intermediate bones when user marked leg nodes
- Add flags to toggle gltf comment and normal output
- Fix face normal
- Adjust the skeleton bone mesh radius
User can mark selected nodes as specified body location explictly. This will help the rigging step generating more reasonable result, also prepared for the future animation clip generation.
- Implement CCD (Cyclic Coordinate Descent) IK (Inverse Kinematics) algorithm
- Add end-effector pulling operation, this would be useful when you want to pull a group of nodes in line to align straight or mimic curl.
Jeremy Hu
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