Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project
There Doesn't seem to be any good way of exporting meshes that are a result of simplification (like those generated by baking Occlusion models) which can have other uses in Optimization, such as efficiently reducing Shadow Triangle counts, However for that some post processing needs to be done in other tools such as blender to just slightly shrink the result to prevent shadow triangles from poking out.
If said Occluder Meshes were using Normal Array Mesh resources, it'd be possible to turn them into a mesh and use the current exporting capabilities to do this.
Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation
Convert Normal Array Mesh to Occluder Array Mesh and other way around, to help creating Occluders and using them for other optimizations (such as the Shadows example above)
Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams
I don't have a good idea how to expose this to the user, as there are too many possible ways that it'd make sense, and not at the same time such.. Probably the best idea would be to do it like with materials converting to shaders..
If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?
Possibly by extracting the array and making a tool to turn that into a mesh and export that
Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?
Such internal format changer tools should be core.
Calinou
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2 years ago
Describe the project you are working on
Optimizing Game
Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project
There Doesn't seem to be any good way of exporting meshes that are a result of simplification (like those generated by baking Occlusion models) which can have other uses in Optimization, such as efficiently reducing Shadow Triangle counts, However for that some post processing needs to be done in other tools such as blender to just slightly shrink the result to prevent shadow triangles from poking out.
If said Occluder Meshes were using Normal Array Mesh resources, it'd be possible to turn them into a mesh and use the current exporting capabilities to do this.
Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation
Convert Normal Array Mesh to Occluder Array Mesh and other way around, to help creating Occluders and using them for other optimizations (such as the Shadows example above)
Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams
I don't have a good idea how to expose this to the user, as there are too many possible ways that it'd make sense, and not at the same time such.. Probably the best idea would be to do it like with materials converting to shaders..
If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?
Possibly by extracting the array and making a tool to turn that into a mesh and export that
Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?
Such internal format changer tools should be core.