Mesh Tool - A Mesh Editor

[JoeWintergreen]

This is really excellent work. Made a thread on your itchio community with my wishlist
One thing I feel like must be in there that I can’t find is vert snapping - can’t seem to snap verts to other verts. Is that in there somewhere?

[Nate]

@JoeWintergreen, thanks!

Will reply your itch thread there, meanwhile you can go to Issues · marynate/mesh-tool · GitHub for planned features.

For Vertex Snapping, you need to hold V key while dragging transform widget:

Mesh Tool Week 5 DevLog - Vertex Snap

[JoeWintergreen]

Oh, sweet. That’s gonna help

[Nate]

Mesh Tool 1.0.4 released

Change Log

1.0.4

• Add Draw Circle
• Add Insert Edge loop
• Add Delete Vertices
• Add Delete Edges
• Add button to force rebuild mesh distance fields
• Add Normal as new Local Transform Coord option;
• Improve De-select Edge by Alt key, now can de-select shared edge from other side
• Fix Bug when LocalTransformCoord set to world, cached transform not been updated

Draw Circle

Mesh Tool 1.0.4 - Draw Circle

Insert Edge Loop

Mesh Tool 1.0.4 - Insert Edge Loop

[Stiffy360]

Hey, the mesh tool leaves leftover verts after I delete faces.

http://i.imgur.com/uD3BnW9.png (I selected a vert then selected inverse)

[Nate]

@Stiffy360, you can use “Delete Orphan Vertex” to delete all left-over vertices

It was designed that way to: 1. orphan vertices could be use to re-construct faces if needed 2. improve performances as while delete faces is a cheap operation, delete vertices is more expensive when mesh is large.

I think I will add an option to delete those left over vertices automatically.

BTW, The option can be used to display all backface vertices including orphan vertices. Please note that you can only use marquee select (ctrl + alt + mouse drag) to select backface vertices.

[Shirk]

Is there no way to copy the texture information from one face to an adjacent face like in Hammer when holding alt? I would like to be able to quickly copy the settings I have for one face and apply it to any other face.

[Stiffy360]

@;728667

@Stiffy360, you can use “Delete Orphan Vertex” to delete all left-over vertices

It was designed that way to: 1. orphan vertices could be use to re-construct faces if needed 2. improve performances as while delete faces is a cheap operation, delete vertices is more expensive when mesh is large.

I think I will add an option to delete those left over vertices automatically.

BTW, The option can be used to display all backface vertices including orphan vertices. Please note that you can only use marquee select (ctrl + alt + mouse drag) to select backface vertices.

Yeah an option to delete orphaned verts would be pretty good.

One of the things I’d like to be able to do is create an empty mesh instead of just editing a mesh. (I know you can create a duplicate and keep editing, but I’d want to flat out start a new one.)

If we experience UE4 crashes due to your plugin, is there anything you’d like to have to help solve it?

[JoeWintergreen]

@Shirk;728697

Is there no way to copy the texture information from one face to an adjacent face like in Hammer when holding alt? I would like to be able to quickly copy the settings I have for one face and apply it to any other face.

There isn’t but it looks like there’s gonna be Wishlist - Mesh Tool for Unreal Engine community - itch.io

[Nate]

Hi @Shirk, I’m working on Matching UV feature.
@Stiffy360, just added delete orphaned verts with faces option. (Add option to delete left over vertices (orphan vertices) when deleting faces · Issue #17 · marynate/mesh-tool · GitHub) will be ready in 1.0.5 update.
Create empty mesh is good idea (though technically you need at lease on triangle in valid static mesh). Just have to figure out where to put the right UI. Added to todo list.

If you’re running UE4 build from source, then the Call Stack + Error Output from Visual Studio would be most accurate info to pin down bug; If you are running Launcher version, then the Log file and Crash files (in project’s Saved/Logs and Saved/Crashes folder) would be also very useful. And includes the steps for re-producing the crash if possible.

[JoeWintergreen]

Hey ,
Here’s a bug I’m having with the latest version that I didn’t run into in the last version: verts dragging off into space in the opposite direction to the direction I’m dragging in, and way too far.
video

Also, what’s more convenient for you: me posting issues here, your twitter, itchio…?

[Nate]

@JoeWintergreen, thanks for the bug report. The mesh you’re editing has both negative scale in Y and Z which causing the problem. I’m investigating the root cause of the bug, meanwhile you can try editing the same mesh with positive scale.

As the bug/issue report, I would prefer Issues · marynate/mesh-tool · GitHub or new post in Mesh Tool for Unreal Engine community - itch.io, since it would be a little easier to post fix status and follw-ups there. But it’s also totally fine to just post it here if it’s easier for you.

[motorsep]

@;729630

@JoeWintergreen, thanks for the bug report. The mesh you’re editing has both negative scale in Y and Z which causing the problem.

Maybe when user starts editing mesh with your tool scale should be reset to become positive? Like an automatic detection and then pop-up message “Your mesh has negative scale. Would you like to reset?” or something like that.

[Nate]

@motorsep, thanks for the suggestion, but it seems the issue @JoeWintergreen reported has deeper cause than I thought.

To trigger the bug, the mesh has to satisfy both 2 conditions: 1. has non uniform negative scale + 2. has rotation.

For anyone interested, you can drag a cube into the level and set the scale to something negateive non-uniform like “1, -2, -2”, then drag a cylinder into the scene, parent it to the cube. Rotate the cylinder a little then drag the cylinder, you will notice the widget goes nut.

Since Mesh Tool is reply on standard transform widget reporting back accurate value, any error upstream will propagate down caussing more error. Might have to dig more into ue4 editor code see if it’s some limitation could workaround or indeed an engine bug.

[silvermehran]

Sometimes when I use assign material on some faces it change all previous materal ids of object.Is it a bug? how can I view and change the list of materials ids.

[Muzaheed (ahsan Muzaheed)]

can it be used in a package build ?
or just in editor mode?

[Nate]

@silvermehran, that will probablly be a bug. I’ll do some test on my side to see if I can reproduce that. (I would like to revisit material related code after 1.0.5 release, it was done in very short time and it’s time to refator)
You can access mesh’s material slots via built-in Static Mesh editor:

@Muzaheed, the meshes built by Mesh Tool could be used just like normal static meshes, the Mesh Tool itself is an editor only plugin could only be use inside editor.

[Nate]

1.0.5 feature preview: Draw Circle with Divisions

Mesh Tool - Draw Circle with Divisions

[Nate]

1.0.5 feature preview: Mirror Faces

Mesh Tool - Mirror Faces

[Nate]

WIP - Flow UV

Inspired by @JoeWintergreen’s tweet: https://twitter.com/joewintergreen/status/782759290415099904

Mesh Tool - Flow UV on curved surface