Carlosan Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Hi allRecently I´ve been doing some ground work, polishing FillHoles tool and other internal tools. Nothing fun to show but definitelly improving robustness and inbetween added here and there small useful new features, like the one I´ve being showing in this quick and dirt video series. Like proportinal inflate, I´ve recently added too in Separate disconnected functionality a treshold to delete smaller parts. Very common when we import noisy meshes with lots of floating parts.One of the most important feature is the possibility to bridge and connect seperated meshes manually, like I show here: http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/fillholes-revamp-test-1/So stay tunned because the real fun my start soon for me :PCheersRaul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 October 15, 2014 by Farsthary Hi all Just today realize how long since my last post, sadly being in Cuba prevents me from regular updates.Last months ive being working polishing A LOT the FillHoles tools for purposes way beyond regular sculpting to the point of making it a very powerful tool on they own for mesh healing. I will probably make a short video soon featuring a complete workflow for that tools but honestly, this offline situation that has prolonged more than a year now is demotivating me a lot.Ive started working on a quadrangulation tool that proves to be challenging and interesting enough to drive me trough this situation.Hope in new post I will be a little more happy Cheers to all 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted October 16, 2014 Contributor Share Posted October 16, 2014 Great to hear about the new quadrangulation tool! Will this be an update to Autopo or maybe a better replacement for it? (Manual placement of poles; sketch-based autopo?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 REVAMP OF VOLUMETRIC SHELL December 10, 2014 by Farsthary Hi These days I have to go back to volumetric Shell (Non intersecting extrusion/offset tool) and along with many tweaks Ive improved the core algorithm so now non manifold cases should never happen, borders quality is improved too. This are some random dev screenshots I would like to share because I love to watch other devs random screens! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 ARBITRARY CONTOUR QUADRANGULATION January 14, 2015 by Farsthary Hi Quadrangulating as ¨even¨ as possible an arbitrary contour, is by no means an easy task, many algorithm exists and even complete thesis have being written about that. Recently I was developing such a tool that can be used for improve realtime retopology. I have tested it with arbitrary contours and even ill hspaed ones and generally it performs quite good and for patch like contours used in automatic retopo it really excels Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 This may be some good news for our friend Farsthary. Maybe not immediately but it may be a sign of things to come. First free Wi-Fi in Cuba. http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/15/cuba-approves-free-wifi/?ncid=rss_truncated 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Please feel free to add any thoughts in his site Farsthary Site redesign My time has come, finally I’m free from all limitations I had in Cuba: I’m in United States of America, and I’m here to stay. It was a long dream and a hard road to get here, even traumatic to the point I will not share, but I’ve made it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member GeneralAce55 Posted April 6, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 6, 2015 Site redesign My time has come, finally I’m free from all limitations I had in Cuba: I’m in United States of America, and I’m here to stay. It was a long dream and a hard road to get here, even traumatic to the point I will not share, but I’ve made it! Congratulations!! I'm extremely happy for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member gbball Posted April 6, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 6, 2015 Congrats Raul! I know you've been working towards this for a long time! Hopefully you'll still a part of the Pilgway crew though right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted April 6, 2015 Reputable Contributor Share Posted April 6, 2015 Congrats Raul! I know you've been working towards this for a long time! Hopefully you'll still a part of the Pilgway crew though right? Yes, he is, and hopefully in a much greater capacity, now that he is largely free of all the limitations he had in Cuba. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 That's great news Raul, what part of the country are you in? Florida? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Flipper Posted April 6, 2015 Member Share Posted April 6, 2015 Congrats Raul; good to hear this news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Grimm Posted April 6, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 6, 2015 Farsthary said My time has come, finally I’m free from all limitations I had in Cuba: I’m in United States of America, and I’m here to stay. It was a long dream and a hard road to get here, even traumatic to the point I will not share, but I’ve made it! Excellent! Welcome to the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted April 6, 2015 Contributor Share Posted April 6, 2015 Al fin, bien venido! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psmith Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Raul: So happy you made it here! I'm sorry you had to suffer so much to make it - but now you are freer than you ever have been. Greg Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member bisenberger Posted April 6, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 6, 2015 Good news! Hope our relations with Cuba continue to improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted April 6, 2015 Contributor Share Posted April 6, 2015 Good news! Hope our relations with Cuba continue to improve. Gerontocracies like Cuba and Iran have 'sell by' dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted April 7, 2015 Contributor Share Posted April 7, 2015 Congrats Farsthary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farsthary Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hi All!!! Yes, I've made it! and of course I'm still part of Pilgway, now better than ever Still I'm warming up, just arrived to Orlando, Florida and need to do a lot of paperwork, legalization, moving to my own place, but I expect to be at full really soon more so because I have now a world of open opportunities after more than a year pretty much offline in Cuba, demotivated and performing ground work. Now I have the motivation to push the accelerator :P Thank you all for your welcome words! I'm still disoriented for all the new things I need to learn as quick as possible to the way of living here and everything helps a lot! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted April 7, 2015 Reputable Contributor Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) Welcome to the States! Raul. I lived in Orlando and 2 other cities in Florida a number of years ago... I am across the Gulf of Mexico from you in South Texas, Corpus Christi area... Edited April 7, 2015 by digman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Welcome Raul! And congratulations on achieving one of your dreams. I've never been to Orlando, but if it's anything like Miami, I'm sure it's pretty fun. Enjoy your time. Also looking forward to what you are cooking up for 3DC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 I lived in Orlando for a year for school, right around the corner from Universal Studios actually. It's a nice place. I'd love to move back there. Good luck getting settled and remember, as they say in Florida, if you don't like the weather go across the street! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member L'Ancien Regime Posted April 8, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 8, 2015 Great; Raul in Orlando. Looking forward to exciting new developments in 3d coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Source Arbitrary 3D contour convex partitioning heuristic Hi all Some time ago I’ve developed an automatic quad fill routine to tessellate an arbitrary 3D contour into quads, as even as possible. That algorithm is quite good indeed but suboptimal for L-shapes, T-shapes and in general for complex concave contours.So these days I’m quite busy trying to figure out an algorithm for spatial splitting the contour. After squeezing my brain finally found a very nice heuristic to split the contour at corner feature points. I’m exited because is very powerful and works in any arbitrary 3D spatial shapes. This algorithm will serve beyond the QuadFill tool and Im figuring out few interesting new geometric tools for it!Here are some screenshots of the intermediate process with visual debugging. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member piacenti Posted April 30, 2015 Member Share Posted April 30, 2015 Sounds awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 QuadFill toolHi Finally iron out the remaining issues and is done! QuadFill is a tool aimed for quadrangulating an arbitrary 3D contours, for testing purposes I used holes boundaries which I can easily create and shape in arbitrary forms so i can quickly test and debug the tool. But it will be used in places other than filling holes for which we ave an extensive set of algorithms. So will be more suited for retopo, autopo, and the like. The good thing is that is quite robust and flexible, given any vertex contours it will be quad dominant and produce at most, 1 triangle and the rest will be quads. Of course , that remaining triangle can be easily avoided if in a preprocess step the contour is made of even number of vertices, without loosing generality. In previous iterations of this tool I have not addressed the complex contour case, like T-shapes, X-shapes, C, L and the like, non convex forms, causing it to fail at those: Now I have solved the general contour partition, avoiding uneven splitting, interpolating and recursive filling of each convex area. Eventually merging and smoothing/beautifying the output mesh. Underlying steps are optimal or quasi optimal for initial contour constraints considering edge vertex are unmovable. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted April 30, 2015 Advanced Member Share Posted April 30, 2015 Fantastic work. seems to work a treat. Would be great to see it on even more complex open shapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Quadrangulation test A quick test of the quadrangulation algorithm for arbitrary contours, I have remapped the functionality to the close holes tools just for development purposes, so don’t take the Interface as is, also the results are not turned into actual geometry for now. Is just to test how well and robust the algorithm can optimally fill any given contour (the holes) with quads. By no means a trivial task. What actual tools would you think can benefit from this? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 That would be useful for guided retopology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted May 5, 2015 Contributor Share Posted May 5, 2015 Yes, like Javis said, this can give the user more control and speed up work in the Autopo or manual retopology tools. We could paint areas where we want edge flow to change direction, and then click apply to get automatic retopology there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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