Seam slice/cut line tool(find nearest edge line/loop)
Dec 20, 2017 15:49:58 GMT
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Post by kwhali on Dec 20, 2017 15:49:58 GMT
I am presently working with 2 million triangle mesh, it is split into 21 parts to begin with. Shapes are mostly flat or curved(half cylinder like), others are more complicated wooden carvings(but rectangular shaped bounds/blocks).
Like with request in other feature for grid/subdivide method, this is similar kind. The tool would let you draw a line in screen space, then when applied(eg mouse release), triangles this line intersects would be selected, and edge path of connected triangles would be made as a seam that can be cut. If I have several long islands that are aligned/packed together in UV space, I could draw a line through all of them, and each island would get a weld line across the line that was drawn.
While I have many similar shapes, the topology/triangles is different, so the select similar does not seem to work here. It'd be interesting if one could clone a seam line and move that in 3D space(like 3D Coat gizmo for transformations) and apply this technique in similar fashion(nearest point/normal to edges?) but in 3D space(3D Coat has a curve tool with snapping that can do this sort of thing if you'd like to see ways to use it for interface).
Like with request in other feature for grid/subdivide method, this is similar kind. The tool would let you draw a line in screen space, then when applied(eg mouse release), triangles this line intersects would be selected, and edge path of connected triangles would be made as a seam that can be cut. If I have several long islands that are aligned/packed together in UV space, I could draw a line through all of them, and each island would get a weld line across the line that was drawn.
While I have many similar shapes, the topology/triangles is different, so the select similar does not seem to work here. It'd be interesting if one could clone a seam line and move that in 3D space(like 3D Coat gizmo for transformations) and apply this technique in similar fashion(nearest point/normal to edges?) but in 3D space(3D Coat has a curve tool with snapping that can do this sort of thing if you'd like to see ways to use it for interface).
