[Plugin] OBJexporter v3.0 20130131
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I should know better not to ask you about the api, you're the expert, and I'm sure you've already taken the best possible route to make your exporter
About the door, you're right! I didn't catch that. Is it possible that your exporter reverse the order of the triangle's vertex because the Zaxis is down rather than up? say, p1,p2,p3 becomes p3,p2,p1 but the uv's are for p1,p2,p3, and that's why I get the face normal going in rather then out? My raytrace sees the face material just fine, but becuase it shoots a ray inward (bounce off the face normal) it hits no light, and shows real dark. When I manually reverse p3,p2,p1 to p1,p2,p3, then the bouce of the normal is outward and hits a light, and looks fine.
One suggestion, is it possible to modify your exporter to save the textures all in png rather than mixed jpg, tga etc? no matter what the original was?
Thanks tig for taking the time, I appreciate it.
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Clever idea about changing the Texture Files' format on export...
Here's v1.6 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=294844#p294844
Option to export all Texture files in PNG format added [after the OBJ save path has been given].
'Yes' makes all the exported textures into PNG files: note that the processing might then take a second or two longer as these conversions will take a finite amount of time.
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WOW that was FAST
Thank you, thank you!Any thought about the Zaxis and the reverse p1,p2,p3?
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@alienizer said:
WOW that was FAST
Thank you, thank you!
Any thought about the Zaxis and the reverse p1,p2,p3?That bit was easy - but that other bit is too obscure... because you should be able to have oddly place components and still return correct UVs
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@tig said:
but that other bit is too obscure... because you should be able to have oddly place components and still return correct UVs
hmmm, but when the vertex are CC instead of CCW, the ray/triangle intersect report the hit being on the back face rather then the front! Is there a way in the exporter to know which is p1, p2 and p3? and save them in the proper order? SKP must do it right for it to be able to display the back face in blue when viewed in mono.
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tig, I found the problem. If you can do a test, (use a model with all faces facing the right way), run your raytrace and for every pixels on the screen, if it hits the back face (turn off back face culling) display that pixel in red, otherwise use some other color, material color perhaps. You will see that using skp exporter, they are fine, using yours, some are not. Now, a quick fix I did was to get the normal <-- cross(edge1,edge2) and then, calculate the normal for p1. Do a dot(Normal, NormalAtP1) and if the result is negative, recreate the face as p3,p2,p1 as oppose to p1,p2,p3, and swap 1 and 3 for the UVs as well. Then your raytrace will show the face correctly. I hope I make sense? Pehars that's how other render do it to correct such problem?
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Sorry to be a pest TIG, but have you had a chance to read me posts?
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I have read it, but I am busy on several other things right now.
Why don't you poke around in my code [the #500s lines] and see if you can fix it - then you can have joint (c) credit
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@tig said:
I have read it, but I am busy on several other things right now.
Why don't you poke around in my code [the #500s lines] and see if you can fix it - then you can have joint (c) credit
If I was as smart as you perhaps I would! -
OK I try to make time to look at it next week...
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Works great for for me, thanks a lot TIG!
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Thanks TIG, this is an incredibly useful plugin, the most reliable obj-exporter I've tried.
I have one feature request though - could you add an option to export faces with distorted textures using the original texture and just save the "distorted" UV coordinates in the .obj file? As it is now doing something as simple as exporting a spherically-mapped globe can generate hundreds of distorted texture files and a correspondingly complicated .obj file, not exactly ideal for loading into another program.
I've modified version 1.1 to normalize the UVQ coordinates before export and it seems to work fine, it would be nice to have access to the more recent features though so I'm sending you the change in hopes that you'll incorporate it into the next version
the relevant change was changing the line
f_uvs=(1..mesh.count_points).map{|i|mesh.uv_at(i,1)}####1=front
to
f_uvs=(1..mesh.count_points).map{|i|flattenUVQ(mesh.uv_at(i,1))}####1=front
where flattenUVQ is defined as
def flattenUVQ(uvq)
return Geom::Point3d.new((uvq.x/uvq.z), (uvq.y/uvq.z), 1.0)
endThanks a bunch!
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Sketchup's own OBJexporter also makes individual 'distorted' images when a texture has been 'distorted' by UV mapping - simple rotations or scaling shouldn't produce multiple images.
I added the feature to mimic it because otherwise you don't get the correct 'distortion' - I have previously tried the very method you outline in your code snippet but it never gave satisfactory results. The flattenUVQ method is actually in the code 'unused' [until the more recent updates that make distorted images...].
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Yeah, I had noticed and used the flattenUVQ method provided - I figured it was something you had brought in from someone else's code but didn't use. I didn't see it in the latest version so I thought I'd include it in case you didn't have an archive of older versions.
Don't get me wrong, it's awesome that you've managed to export non-linearly distorted faces accurately, however for many situations a linear approximation is preferable, especially if lots of additional textures or a complicated group layout present problems - like if you intend to use the exported object in a game engine, or want to fine-tune the UV mapping in another program. It may even be what was actually intended: for example UVTools' spherical map apparently uses distorted textures when linear interpolation is the correct method. In fact I'm not sure it's even possible to specify a lineraly distorted face in Sketchup. I've yet to find a way to, for example, squeeze a rectangular texture onto a trapezoid so the edges and center-points line up perfectly, and that's UV mapping 101.
All I'm suggesting is a checkbox on the option screen to choose between the accurate method and the "clean" one, it should just be a matter of changing the logic to
if "face is distorted" *AND* "use accurate method" create accurate texture export face using accurate texture else output face with normalized UVs # normalizing should have no effect on non-distorted faces -
*** BUG REPORT ***
Using this model from the 3D warehouse...
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=38e9f1365c57ff87d4fc0542dfb23a55
it export just fine, except the last line in the mtl file is "newmtl fueg" and nothing else after. The file is lock for writing, and after closing Sketchup, the reminder is written to the mtl file.
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It is a 9Mb SKP and makes an OBJ file with 41 million lines of code so taking 5min+ to complete isn't surprising!
It worked fine for me...
The only 'error' was it didn't write '#EOF' into the end of the MTL file but that's just for me so I know it's done all materials [but it had?] -
@tig said:
It is a 9Mb SKP and makes an OBJ file with 41 million lines of code so taking 5min+ to complete isn't surprising!
It worked fine for me...
The only 'error' was it di dn't write '#EOF' into the end of the MTL file but that's just for me so I know it's done all materials [but it had?]I let mine site all night for 9 hours and the last line of the mtl file still was "newmtl fueg", and the exporter stutus said it was done in 66 secs. So I closed Sketchup and that commited the buffer to the mtl file and it was then complete!
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Strange - might be a memory issue ?
Also the missing [but not fatal] '#EOF' in the MTL was puzzling as there were no error messages ???
If I get to the bottom of it I'll let you know. -
@tig said:
Strange - might be a memory issue ?
Also the missing [but not fatal] '#EOF' in the MTL was puzzling as there were no error messages ???
If I get to the bottom of it I'll let you know.This is the second model it did this. The first one, I thought it was Sketchup because when I closed it, then file became complete. I don't remember which one it was! I know the file doesn't get closed because it has a write lock on it until you close Sketchup, even though the exporter is done without any errors!
I have a suggestion
Can you incorporate the fix reverse back face material in the exporter? Perhaps add a checkbox for that opton? Maybe it's faster to do it as it goes then using both plugins? I'm not the expert so I don't know.Thanks TIG, your exporter is by far the best the way it is.
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