[Bf-gamedev] Features list revisited - projects for 2015

[Timur Ariman]

@Takanu Kyriako 

the majority of people are heavily relying on tools like Zbrush and 3DCoat since those are used broadly along all the 3D industries including the games industry.


while agreeing on fbx as that it is not ready yet for such a step,
a quick obj I/O is crucial if you have a pipeline of tools 

where you have the need of I/O.


1. Blender has amazing baking functions where a fast I/O, of OBJ files would help tremendously for baking down highpoly details to lowpoly ones.

2. for keeping the drawcalls in game engines down, you combine all meshes and export them 
as one big mesh - since those meshes are static, obj can be used in that case inside the game engines.

In these above cases which are just the first two, there are many more cases exclusively 

for game artists, a fast obj I/O would be important. 


I think it can be agreed on that the inclusion of a PBR viewer inside of Blender is only the cherry on top which gets implemented when the
underlying stuff like Multi-UV, better obj I/O and improvements of the UV editor etc is implemented.


@ Piotr

to point c
there is the UV squares addon available this should help you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYZnGIql2UI

its on the Blendermarket and an older version available 

on github to test and be convinced to get this addon from the store. 

https://github.com/Radivarig/BlenderScripts/tree/master/UvSquares





Piotr Arłukowicz <piotao at inf.ug.edu.pl> schrieb am 0:07 Donnerstag, 6.November 2014:


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>I'm unable to add anything to the shared doc, so, please let me write here.
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>Small thing which should be added is a tweak for UV editor:
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>a] the ability to select a shortest path between vertices (Ctrl+RMB) like in 3d view
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>b] a pivot centering in lower left corner after Shift+C (like 3d cursor centering in 3dview)
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>c] a new option in Specials menu for UV editor: for easier editing unwrapped islands, along with AlignX, AlignY there should be the an option AlignXY for multiple aligns of many vertices in quad-oriented island. Result: all vertex in island set in rectangular grid (the same now I can achieve after multiple align of selected vertices, but this is VERY time consuming).
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>d] the ability of copying vertex positions of specified island, and to paste those vertex to the island (and restore locations of all vertices)
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>If some of such options already exists, sorry for my lack of knowledge, please point me out the right direction. The highest needs are for options c, then a, b and d, in that order...
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>regards
>Piotr
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>Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD, BFCT
>University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Dept. of AI,
>Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121, tel.: +48585232151, https://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao
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>2014-11-01 18:47 GMT+01:00 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
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>Hi all,
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>>Remember, we had this quite well collected list of 'game artist development support' topics:
>>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuS_F0ZKX-zTdGxKOEMtRmI2Tno4UUlPZzVfNXB6RHc#gid=0
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>>The big ones have been done, or are being worked on:
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>>- Baking
>>- FBX
>>- Vertex normals
>>- Viewport features
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>>The idea of "Multi object uv edit" is interesting, we'll be looking into that.
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>>I'd like to check with the people who made and managed this spreadsheet to update it?
>>Are there other topics, or ideas for prioritizing?
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>>Via Development Fund we can still afford a developer to work on support for game artists in 2015.
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>>-Ton-
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>>Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
>>Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
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