[Bf-committers] Blender tangent space calculation

Morten Mikkelsen mikkelsen7 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 22:08:04 CET 2011


There you go buddy --> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=blender+tangent+space



On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Eugene Minov <minov.eug at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> I am sorry if I subscribe into a wrong place, I am new and I've not
> actually planned to change or to debug the blender sources yet.
> But I trying to write app that'll be render models with normal mapping
> exported from blender, and I have a question about how exactly is blender
> calculates a tangent vectors when Unwrap operation in the editing mode
> performs?
>
> Calculating tangents in my app in usual manner (using UV coords and verts
> positions) gives me different tangents for each face of the same vertex
> indexed from, and thus crumpled normal map looking.
> Then by looking into blender sources (searching  by 'tangent' keyword) I've
> found a couple of functions with tangents calculations, like:
>    float axis[3] = {0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};
>    cross_v3_v3v3(tangent, normal, up);
>    normalize_v3(tangent);
>
> After I tried same method in my program I've gotten almost perfect looking
> model, depending on what initial axis I've used.
> To choose, which axis to use (0, 0, 1), (0, 1, 0) or (1, 0, 0) for each
> normal, I calculate max dot product of tangent calculated by each axis with
> tangent calculated from UV coords.
> But still it seems that in some rare vertices tangent is calculates wrong,
> maybe because of wrong initial axis.
>
> So, can anyone please give me any information about tangents calculation
> formula that blender uses while generates UV coords or some advice about
> choosing initial axis.
> Thanks for help.
>
> Eugene
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