Retopology is the process of converting high-resolution models into something much smaller that can be used for animation. It can be a difficult process, but the basic idea is to create another mesh that simplifies the original HD asset. source: https://conceptartempire.com/retopology/ Manual This process is usually done manually with tools like Retopoflow, a superb addon …
Release month continues with FlatMapper, a videomapping sketch running in processing. Source code is here: https://github.com/frankiezafe/FlatMapper And here is a demo video of the applicationt:
Editing ogre materials: Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/ Addon for ogre’s materials: https://github.com/TheSHEEEP/ST-OgreScripts
I’ve learned something really important today: an OpenGL context can be accessed by one and ONLY one thread! See Under what circumstances would glGenBuffers/glGenBuffersARB fail?. And this is the first time I feel annoyed by the singleton approach of Ogre3D. In my asset converter util, I use Ogre object, the MeshManager mainly, to convert xml …
I’m currently working on a more user friendly mesh, skeleton & materials converter. For the little story, when you export a model from blender, the blender addon outputs xml files. These files have to be parsed by the OgreXMLConverter to produce the final files. *.mesh & *.skeleton files are binaries. It’s a tedious process, especially …
Useful repository to compile Ogre3d dependencies : https://bitbucket.org/cabalistic/ogredeps Once done, just adapt the cmake param OGRE_DEPENDENCIES_DIR