Dust3D

Dust3D is aim to be a quick modeling tool for game development. Currently the development is in the very early stage.

Idea

I was inspired by Jimmy Gunawan's blogs of monster generation, here is the first one INSPIRATION / Pixar Monster Factory Part One, and by search the Skin Modifier of Blender, I found the theory of Skin Modifier:
B-Mesh: A Fast Modeling System for Base Meshes of 3D Articulated Shapes(Authors: Zhongping Ji, Ligang Liu, Yigang Wang). I started to think of monster model generation for game development from years ago, thanks for this paper, Dust3D is achievable now.
From my initial thought, Dust3D should be a tool like Makehuman, with more versatile features, not only can make human, but also be able to generate monsters automatically.

TODO & Progress

• Drawing Primitives (Dec 15, 2016 ~ Dec 17, 2016)
  Sphere
  I don't want the whole project have any unnecessary dependent, like glu library. Let's start with drawing a sphere without gluSphere, because I want implement the same spheres which presented in the B-Mesh paper.
  Cylinder
  Two caps and many strips composites a cylinder.
  Infinite Grid
  Almost all 3D editor have a infinite grid ground, I just made a finite one, in the future, I should expand the grid outside of the screen to make it infinite.
  Now, for just beginning, I think it's a not bad start.
• Implement B-Mesh algorithm (Dec 18, 2016 ~ Dec 19, 2016)
  Drawing Skeletal Shape Balls
  Draw shape ball is easy, no need to rotate, I just need scale it along the ball's radius. Draw the cylinder which connects two shape balls is more difficult, I need do some math to rotate it. Here described it.
  Camera Control
  Camera rotate/zoom implemented, here is a good article which explained the theory of OpenGL Transformation. Most important is that the demo app is very beautiful.
  Added x,z axis, looks better than last screenshot.
  I have to use the GLU library, the previous implementation of drawSphere and drawCylinder looks not good, and take too much time to debug.
• Export Wavefront .obj
• Render B-Mesh result
• Design UI for monster parts configuration
• Test B-Mesh realtime generation with UI
• Render rigid animation
• png exporter for isometric 2.5D game
• Version 0.01 release
• Materials merge of different parts