Quote - Hey Spanki,

Like Cage said, I wrote some tools for this kind of thing, back in the day. They match mesh topology, not positions or orderings, so they should be pretty robust. Basically, you can take two meshes with the same topology and transfer any kind of information - vertex positions, UV positions, grouping - back and forth between them. I used this a lot while working on Antonia, particularly for propagating UV maps from the low-res to the high-res version and such.

I've never really bothered to give these tools a decent API or at least prettify the command line interface. But if you want them, and I can still get them to compile, you can have them. If you prefer source code, you can find that here: https://github.com/odf/scala-meshes

The code is pretty ugly, because it was my first exercise of programming in Scala (which I since have abandoned as a language). Otherwise, I'd have suggested that you could just study what I did and replicate it. :-)

Cheers,

O.

 

Ahh - thanks for the info.  I am a little confused about your explaination though -  maybe it's a matter of semantics / terminology, but...

Quote - ...They match mesh topology, not positions or orderings...

From my understanding, 'mesh topology' is basically defined by the layout of the polygons, which in turn are defined by the 'positions' of the vertices that make up those polygons.  I don't know how you could be comparing mesh topologies without (ultimately) comparing vertex positions (?).

I don't know Scala, but I'll take a look at that code - thanks.

BTW, I know that it's mentioned ('somewhere') in this long thread, but who did the newer (non-A version) uv-mapping of Antonia 1.2 ?  Or perhaps more importantly, do you know what tools they used for it?

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