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Awesome work, Dalai.<br>
<br>
I have spoken to you about this on IM but I figured it would be good
to get this on the list too, so please forgive any overlap between
the list and our conversations. :)<br>
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<li>Any ideas when we are going to get to see the cages? This
shouldn't ship with Blender until we can see how far the cages
are extruding. The cage feature should definetly be a modifier
as it allows the flexibility to modify the cage and other gui
such as picking the colours of the cage with perhaps some
sliders for offsetting everything easily.</li>
<li>AA is very important, but not as important as being able to
view the cage in real time. A good default for AA would be 4xAA.
Anything more isnt worth the extra rendering time and anything
less doesnt match up well enough in terms of quality.<br>
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<li>The Custom cage title is not correct. Custom cages are when
the user has modified the topology of the cage by moving
verts/topology and meshes under this slot do not need to have
modified verts/topology in order to work. They could use a
regular mesh or have one imported from another application so
just calling it Cage mesh or Cage object would be perfect.
Calling it cage mesh goes against convention for all other 3d
applications so it's just going to cause confusion.</li>
<li>Tangent space should be default for normal maps. I would even
think about removing the option to bake world space as no one
uses them ever in production as they are the least flexible of
all normal maps.</li>
<li>X+Y+Z+ should be default and is what is being baked currently
by default even though the GUI says X-Y-Z- (for TS nmaps at
least. IIRC OS and WS bake an odd order that doesnt match any
convention. Something like X+Z-Y+ of the top of my head.)</li>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
-Andy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/03/2014 03:08, Dalai Felinto
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
Some update:
The *bake-cycles* branch is near feature complete for its first round.
The only missing bit is anti-alias which I'm tempted to post-pone
until after the first round of code-review.
Recent/New features:
* User Interface (no more need to fiddle with Python scripts)
* File Formats (save as PNG, JPG, OpenEXR, Tiff, Targa and BMP -
RGB/RGBA - 8/16/32)
* Custom Cage
* Normal swizzle (change the axis that gets mapped to RGB)
* Normal space (save as tangent, world, object)
As usual the code is here:
* <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/tree/bake-cycles">https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/tree/bake-cycles</a>
The Blender-Artist thread [1] is still getting a lot of attention, but
I would rather if testers could use the github issue list to report
bugs:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/issues?state=open">https://github.com/dfelinto/blender-git/issues?state=open</a>
I'll try to do some code cleaning up and address some of the known
issues in the remaining of the week. Hopefully the code can be
available for code-reviewers by next Blender Sunday Dev Meeting.
[1] - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?326534">http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?326534</a>
Cheers,
Dalai
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2014-02-17 23:41 GMT-03:00 Dalai Felinto <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dfelinto@gmail.com"><dfelinto@gmail.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">Hi there.
I just pushed support for "Selected to Active" in the bake-cycles
branch. The new parameters for the operator are:
* use_selected_to_active=False
* cage_extrusion=0.0
The idea is to bake from a high-poly mesh to a low-poly mesh.
Notes:
* There is no pre-visualization of the cage
* The cage always look inwards
* The cage cannot be 'edited' (all you can change is the cage extrusion)
* The calculation is done in the local space of the objects (as if the
objects had scale 1,1,1, and were in origin with no rotation)
* I tested against XNormals (managed to install "here") and the result
seem to be matching, though the color is coded slightly different for
object normal maps:
Cycles RGB = XNormal R(1-B)G
XNormal RGB = Cycles RB(1-G)
Cheers,
Dalai
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