Mesh Tool - A Mesh Editor

[Nate]

@motorsep;663069

Do you plan on having clipping tool (like Knife tool in Blender) and functionality to remove selected triangles ? (I’d like to chop off parts of the mesh that protrude into terrain and cut out holes in my mesh terrain)

I’ll definitely add “Remove faces” functionality (I think it’ll be useful to delete useless faces after actor merge). Not sure about Knife tool, I understand tools like that could be useful but I have to be very careful to not make a full feature modeler to compete with blender :). (Probally a bad idea considering that’s my first ever mesh editor) But I do like to explore the idea to add basic mesh boolean operation.

@CoquiGames;663130

Very nice @Natewhat about UV mapping? If you start with a simple cube and subdivide / extrude several faces, how will the UVs be created?

Good question! That’s something keep me thinking these couple days, from my little “google research”, there’re basically 2 ways: 1) Auto UV projection whenever mesh being edited (e.g. extrude), could be simple Box Mapping or could be complex as LSCM or As-Rigid-As-Possible). 2) Do it via shader voodoo, like World Space UV Mapping or Object Space Triplanar Mapping. Haven’t decided which way to go.

@Shirk;663156

This is great, I do really hope you expand on this quite a bit (it has massive potential in engines like this). UV map generation, lightmap generation, extruding, beveling, etc will really make this an ultimate level designer tool for layouts.

To be honest, I haven’t quite made up my mind the scope of Mesh Tool. But I like to keep playing around see how far it’ll go