Can you please tell me if you have any ideas how to create such an object? I realised that this is a very difficult task, because I can’t make such an object to be affected by the environment - light, shadow. I get problems with normals. In general like I would like to have something like this in primitives.
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Maybe it has been already figured out in VL.Polytools?
Haven’t tried, but seems like the extruded paths are compatible with PBR materials
That’s where everyone sends me. I have to give this option a chance. But it feels a little wrong to me.
Looks like it’s basically what SegmentZ did in beta / DX11. Should be pretty easy to port. You can check out the sphere I added to VL.Addons as an example. If you go ahead and do it, please consider adding it to the addons :)
Is this gamma / a port of SegmentZ?
It looks a bit strange.
No, one guy ported it from some Unity code
I looked at the SegmentZ code and it seems to me that I understand how the sharp edges were achieved — different faces built separately from doubled points?
TBH I didn’t really check the code. Only remembered SegmentZ and had a brief look at the help patch in beta.
for sharp edges you need one normal per point (per face). ie you cannot share the vertices, since they need different normals.
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Ah one thing I forgot to mention: If you do port from beta to gamma make sure to change the order in which the vertices are added from [1,2,3] to [1,3,2] because of coordinate system handedness (beta left handed / gamma right handed).
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Nice!
Thank you, guys!
If it works out to port, I’ll let you know.
Let me know if you will port it in the future.