Mesh Tool - A Mesh Editor

[Nate]

@HeadClot;675053

Hey @ - Got a few questions about this tool.

1. How do you plan on tackling texturing?
2. Do you plan to take advantage of Open Subdiv for this tool? Open Subdiv should arrive in 4.16 or 4.17 I cannot remember which.
3. Can we save meshes made with this tool as an Static mesh asset in the content browser?

Personally speaking I would love to see texturing done similar to the old school Quake or Doom ED tools.
For example - take a material and apply it to the face of the wall, floor, ceiling, etc.

Sorry for reply late. ( Got pretty tied up this weekend. )

1. For Texturing/UV, I’m using auto planar mapping (same logic as UE4 bsp texturing). Will adding manual offset/rotate/scale editing.
2. I’ve looked into the new GDC 2017 branch, the OpenSubdiv editing is quite interesting, but I’m afraid I’ve to do more research/experimenting to see if adding support for OpenSubdiv.
3. Mesh Tool is working directly with Static Mesh, so each mesh operation will be applied to the Static Mesh asset instantly in content browser

@Shirk;675090

You have really made some great progress this week. Any chance that we will be able to turn off tris and get only quads for viewing + selection?

As Mesh Tool works on Static Mesh (RawMesh) level, it can only see Vertex/Edge/Triangle for now. But I do plan to add a “Pseudo Quad” mode on top of that. (And ways to hide partical edges/triangles display to improve readability of complex level/mesh)

@apoisonedgift;675301

I can’t even express how much I am looking forward to getting my hands on this man. I got into game dev back in the Quake days and I hate the modern 3D modelling approach to world design (only because I suck in those apps it looks great haha). If you need any more hands to be raised for testing then please definitely consider me haha. Otherwise, do you have any sort of ETA on a release and price? No issues if not, just figured it can’t hurt to ask

Thanks! I would really like to reach beta stage in 2 or 3 weeks (hopefully). Regarding the price, I’m thinking about $30~50 range, but I’m open to any pricing suggestion.