The mesh tag has no usage guidance.
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Vertex position problem for connected lines
I’m trying to generate a mesh to display connected segments representing street lines in a mini map. I have problem with vertex orientation that my math knowledge has hard time to resolve.
Let’s ...
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Why doesn't Array.Copy to mesh.verticies work in Unity?
I am rebuilding a mesh but something seems odd that I have to create a temp array just to hold the verticies rather than copy an array.
I'm not using list because this is used frequently and I do not ...
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Explain Mesh.MarkDynamic
As the reference page says, this function/method is used to optimize a mesh for frequent updates, but the description seems a little bit unclear.
What should I consider before using it in my code? ...
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Generate a 2d mesh terain out of triangles (low details)
I'd like to learn a good algorithm to generate a 2d mesh made out only of triangles to be used as a terrain.
Its not important to get a high detail terrain. It should just have a triangle looking ...
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Smooth+Flat shaded meshes cause shadow artifacts (understanding the source of the problem)
I'm using blender to create assets to use in Unity3D, and I'm having some trouble understanding how the smooth/flat shading interacts with shadows, I'm sorry if it has been asked before, but all the ...
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How to convert UV position to texture atlas pos and reapply to UV in Unity
I'm trying to apply a texture from an atlas to a mesh by reiterating through the UV array on that mesh, but I'm a bit lost on converting the coordinates.
For example, if the texture required is at ...
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How to avoid ai hands or any body part going inside wall or ground? (Unreal Engine4)
Whenever my character get killed near wall his hands or any body part its goes through the wall making it look like half of the hands front of wall and another half through back. but i dont like it.. ...
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How far back should I move my camera to fit a given GameObject in frame?
In Unity with C#, I want to calculate the minimum distance that my perspective camera has to be from a given GameObject (a procedurally generated mesh), so that the object is fully framed by the ...
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Can you generate a mesh between to two objects in blender?
I'm wonder if there is any way I can be blender to generate or fill in the gap between these two meshes.
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Stitching terrain tiles made in Blender at runtime
Background
I'm making several individual terrain tiles inside of blender for use within a Unity 3D 5 game. Each tile is square and is made to represent a segment of a world. In game the tiles are ...
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Road Networks and meshes; dealing with intersections
For the last month, I have been working on implementing a road network in my game (engine is Unity), in a similar fashion to city builders (where the player is laying the roads). I am not concerned ...
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get UV coordinates from texture
I downloaded a 3D Model, which is made of 3 submeshes, each one with a different texture. For some reasons, the UV coordinates of one mesh are wrong ( everything is x=0, y=1 ). Since I have the ...
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Generating mesh along path
I'm currently trying to generate a path along an array of points(Vector3)
This is the result i'm currently getting
The dark gray points are the given path
The red points are the generated verticies
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Blender UV unwrapping causes texture to repeat in UDK material
I've made pillow kinda thing, unwrapped it in Blender and then I imported my mesh to UDK, applied a material:
The material splits, but I don't want that to happen, I want to cover the mesh with ...
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Mesh tilemap and scrolling
I'm working on a top-down game where the player can move up, down, left, or right. I've come across tilemaps but since using Unity, I'm seeing the idea of using Meshes. I don't quite understand how ...
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My runtime mesh is not being created where it's vertices are located, need help
I'm trying to create a quad at runtime and I'm encountering an issue where the mesh does not show up in the scene where it's vertices where set. In the following picture you can see the ship, and to ...
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Whats causing this weird texture stretching on my mesh?
Making this mesh via code and the texture seems to only tile on the sides, but not on the top. Any idea whats going on?
public class CoreMeshCreator : MonoBehaviour
{
//Initialization
public void ...
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Errors Generating A Plane Mesh Using A Script In Unity
In unity I have a script which is attached to a game object with a mesh filter. The purpose of the script is to generate a flat plane of 100x100 vertices. The code for the script compiles in ...
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Big 2D world Unity3d
I am planning to make a 2d tile based platformer with big world like in terraria.
I have some questions to ask on how to manage this big world in Unity3D.
The Scenario
World Size = 1000 x 1000 = 1 ...
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Make a triangular mesh from of a map defined by points that follow the coast lines
I have a set of points which follow the coast lines of a world map. I would like to somehow triangulate so that I can render the continents filled in. The points seam to be in order so that if you ...
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Marching Cubes Vertex Normals
I understand how to generate geometry using marching cubes at an isosurface, but I haven't been able to find a clear explanation on how to calculate the vertex normals for a mesh produced using ...
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Binary Space Partitioning of 3d Triangle Mesh (for finding nearest points)
I'm writing a Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) tree for the purpose of optimizing finding the nearest point on the surface of a 3d triangle mesh with respect to another point. I'm currently following a ...
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Only 1 side is rendered
I'm trying to get my .blend object into Unity but for some reason I see it differently in Unity than in Blender.
I was trying to solve the problem and someone said that I have to go to the edit mode, ...
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Is topology of procedural meshes important?
I've been working on a project which involves generating 3d game models, mostly
hard surface ones, procedurally. Do I have to worry about keeping the topology clean? Will topology affect texturing, ...
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How to retrieve vertex information from ID3DXMesh
I need to know the position of each vertex (and triangles) from a mesh (a pointer to ID3DXMesh, created by calling functions like D3DXCreateBox, D3DXCreateTeapot and D3DXCreateSphere) to perform some ...
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Unity3D: One Armature/Skeleton For Many Models
I have multiple box colliders attached to a model's bones, and I want to be able to make these boxes into a prefab as multiple models will be using this same armature, and I would prefer not to ...
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Unity3D rendering only some triangles in a mesh - and triangle fans?
In my OpenGL apps, one of my tricks that I've used often for displaying heads up displays and ui elements, is to have a sorted mesh of triangles and then only render a portion of them.
In one game I ...
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How can I make this shader background more efficient?
I want to use a shader as a background for a mobile game. I'm using libgdx for my project. I've never written glsl before, but here's my attempt so far:
http://glslsandbox.com/e#22332.13
On desktop ...
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Mesh Generation In Code [closed]
My camera looks like this:
I am trying to add 2D polygons to the screen based on the percentage that they take up of a 1920x1080 pixel canvas. Therefore, I calculate this and then use ...
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How to dynamically create movement range mesh? [duplicate]
How would I go about create a movement range /area of control indicator for a hexagonal game? I assume they generate a mesh proceduraly to match the tiles.
Any good articles hat cover this topic?
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Fastest way to find closest triangle of mesh from specified point
I have two triangle meshes (let me call them A and B). The meshes may be really big (10.000 - 100.000 polygons). I want to find for every point in A the closest triangle from mesh B.
Is there fast ...
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Unity, Cannot change a single Vector2 element of mesh.uv?
I have a simple procedurally generated mesh, with uvs that tile correctly
for(int i=1; i<vertices; i++) {
uv[i] = new Vector2(x,z); //pseudocode
}
mesh.uv = uv;
This works fine. However if ...
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How to write an adjacency algorithm that compares position data?
I have a list of indexed triangles for which I need to generate adjacency data. I've already written a brute force algorithm that creates 3 edge data structures for each triangle and then compares the ...
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Can I use flat shading on a generated mesh?
I tried to generate a mesh from code in Unity. The problem is, that the edges are automatically smoothed. When I import a model into Unity, I can set the smoothing angle of the edges, but is something ...
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How can I texture a large terrain mesh in OpenGL?
I want to apply a texture to a large terrain mesh in my game. I think that it is just not acceptable to have a gigantic UV map spanning over 4096 x 4096 pixels.
What's a better way to apply a texture ...
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How do I serialise a mesh to a text file?
I'm building a game engine in OpenTK (OpenGL for C#). Is it ossible to take a terrain mesh (in any format) and convert it into a text file (or a really small character-filled file, no more than a few ...
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Terrain (mesh) textures in Unity - blurry?
I've created a 3D mesh in blender which will be used as a terrain in Unity. Additionaly, I created a 900x900 texture which I'd like to apply as material to the mesh. However, unlike with the normal ...
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Unity - Imported meshes from Blender always corrupt
I want to import a terrain mesh I made in Blender into Unity, however Unity seems to fail to load it correctly. What could be the reason behind this and how can I fix it?
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How do professional games avoid showing pixel seams in adjacent mesh boundaries due to decimal imprecision?
Graphics cards are mathematically imprecise.
So when some meshes are joined by their borders, the graphics card often makes mistakes and decides that some pixels at the seam represent neither object, ...
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Clipping text in algorithm
I'm looking for an algorithm that can clip a text ( GUI Mesh text ) when it's length is over 20 characters. The problem is I have one background image(textured plane) (orthographic), where I want to ...
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Adaptive vs progressive mesh
Is there any distinction between these two? I couldn't find anything in google under "Adaptive vs progressive mesh", but googling them both separately gives results as if they were likely the same.
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FBX SDK Getting Tangents and Binormals From a Mesh?
How do I import tangent and binormal data per vertex from a FBX Mesh.
I already know how to get Vertices, Normals and UVs but how would I get tangents and binormals?
For example this is how I would ...
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Determine Mesh Vertex Index Given Another Mesh Index
Please bare with me as I explain what I am trying to accomplish :P
Each 'X' below represents a mesh vertex:
For my Unity3d GameObject (G1); the mesh vertices are stored in a C# List object in the ...
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Is it ok to destroy mesh directly from MeshFilter in Unity?
Mesh.Destroy(myGameObject.GetComponent<MeshFilter>());
May it cause any problems or undefined behaviour? (the reason I ask this is that I'm trying to destroy an exiting component which is ...
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Generate 2D Triangular Mesh from Vertices on a Map
Given a map of vertices {(x1,y1), (x2,y2), ... (xn,yn)}, how can I generate a 2D triangular mesh covering all vertices, and where the area of all triangles completely covers the map?
The triangular ...
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How do I save my programmatically generated Mesh to a .X file in SlimDX? [closed]
The Mesh has been created properly with SlimDX, but
Mesh.ToXFile(barMesh, "foo.x", XFileFormat.Text,CharSet.Unicode);
throws a NullReferenceException. I checked that barMesh is not null. Inside the ...
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Bullet Physics ConvexDecomposition?
I've looked at Bullet Physics ConvexComposition Demo and would like to implement that in my game but the code is so undescriptive and it's hard to understand what is going on. Would any of you people ...
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Load Meshes with Bullet Physics
I just started implementing some physics in my game with Bullet Physics and I was just wondering how would i use bullet physics to load in meshes. For my for DirectX I load in x files into a ...
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Incomplete mesh using DrawIndexedPrimitives after rotating mesh
Through help on this site I was able to draw the triangles of an unrotated, nonscaled nontransformed mesh created in Blender and exported to OBJ, accurately imported through Assimp and rendered in XNA ...
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What should I do when a VBO becomes too large in OpenGL?
Currently I have one buffer for my vertex data and one buffer for normals data. I fill them and then pass them to OpenGL for rendering.
The problem is when I load too large mesh file like "Lucy" from ...
