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Hi Davit,

Just tested the dll and it's working as expected. Tested on 13 inch retina.
Thanks!

 

unity 5.4 when selecting mesh. with terrains it fine though

MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'UnityEditor.ShaderUtil.GetTexDim'.
VacuumShaders.MeshMaterializer.MM_EditorWindow.TransformChanged ()
VacuumShaders.MeshMaterializer.MM_EditorWindow.OnFocus ()
System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MonoMethod.cs:222)
Rethrow as TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MonoMethod.cs:232)
System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke (System.Object obj, System.Object[] parameters) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/mono/build/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/MethodBase.cs:115)
UnityEditor.HostView.Invoke (System.String methodName, System.Object obj) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:187)
UnityEditor.HostView.Invoke (System.String methodName) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:180)
UnityEditor.HostView.OnFocus () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/HostView.cs:90)

 

You are using version for Unity 5.3
Download MM version for Unity 5.4 using Unity 5.4 editor.



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its fine now. I had to remove it from asset folder ... unity's not showing update button... same old shabby asset store service...

 

Excuse me, I want to export mesh to obj file, I cannot found any tutorials.
How can I do? thank you very much.

 

There is no OBJ exporter in the Mesh Materializer.
Try this free OBJ Exporter from the Asset Store.



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I too have this problem. My Unity is 5.4.1f1 Pro. I've just created a new project and imported the latest MM v1.62, but every time when I select a mesh it gives me:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'UnityEditor.ShaderUtil.GetTexDim'.
3. VacuumShaders.MeshMaterializer.MM_EditorWindow.TransformChanged ()
4. VacuumShaders.MeshMaterializer.MM_EditorWindow.Draw_NameField ()
5. VacuumShaders.MeshMaterializer.MM_EditorWindow.OnGUI ()
6.  

I then tried something like:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. [ExecuteInEditMode]
3. public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
4. {
5.     public bool test;
6.  
7.     void Update()
8.     {
9.         if (test)
10.         {
11.             test = false;
12.  
13.             UnityEngine.Rendering.TextureDimension dim = UnityEditor.ShaderUtil.GetTexDim(Shader.Find("Standard"), 0);
14.             Debug.Log(dim);
15.         }
16.     }
17. }
18.  

but that doesn't causes any problem, weird..

 

You are using version for Unity 5.3
Download MM version for Unity 5.4 using Unity 5.4 editor.

1) Remove MM asset from the project.
2) Clean Asset Store cache:
PC - C:\Users\[Your Profile Name]\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Asset Store
MAC - "~/Library/Unity/Asset\ Store".
3) Now, download package from the Asset Store.



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Hey, clean the asset store cache solved the problem.

 

I'm using the VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/On Direction Light on ALL objects and I get this see through. What is up with this? What shader should I use? I'm using Unity Personal 64 bit edition version 5.4.1f1 version. This is a single scene that I'm testing out with a PC Mac build on a PC.

 

Does it happen in the final build only or in the editor too?
If only in build add shaders from Vertex Color Shaders/Shaders/Resources to the Always Include Shaders array in Edit/Project Settings/Graphics



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Thanks. Please add that to your ReadMe file in whatever your next update is. That also fixed the Editor errors I was seeing with the Unlit shader. Now both are working as I was expecting.

 

Required shaders are inside Resources folder, that is considered to be added into the build automatically by Unity. Strange that it does not happen.



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New tool coming to Mesh Materializer - Mesh Thickness Baker.



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I've been having problems exporting the Terrain Maps with the Basemap settings. I have it on PNG whenever it exports it exports a completely black diffuse texture.. I don't see any of the splats.

 

Do you use custom shader for terrain rendering?
Basemap bakes only paint textures and only if terrain uses built-in shader. Custom shaders are not supported.



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I'm certain it is the standard Unity terrain shader. When I get back to the house, I'll start a new project and try it with terrain and the asset only.

 

Hi, I'm working on a mobile game project that based on modular environment design. I'm thinking about using MM for generate the ambient occlusion at runtime. My question is, is it possible having the task of generating ambient occlusion on a separate thread so it could be executed in background to not freeze the main thread?

 

Some heavy calculations in MM are multi-threaded, but most of them still require main thread and can not be done in the background. Unity not freezing is not guaranteed.

If still thinking of buying, wait several hours .



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Hi there.

My meshes become grey when I press generate. They show the mesh facets, but the colours are missing. I've read the thread, the readme and watched the videos.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but would love some help.

Thanks.

 

There are several tools in MM. What exactly you are trying to bake?



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The materializer.

I'm following the process you demonstrate in the first youtube demo.

I drag a mesh in, modify settings as you do, then hit Generate.

sometimes everything goes white, sometimes pink, and most recently, grey.

The grey is the most promising, because it also possesses the low poly facets. What is does not possess is a coloured texture.

Thanks.

 

For texture baking choose Texture #1 Name property, it is material parameter containing texture to be baked.
If material used by mesh has no such texture it will not be baked.
After baking any data MM prints logs inside console window about conversion and problem if there are any.



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Thanks for the response.

All I really want to do is what I watch you do in the materializer video. You don't put a material in, but colours approximate to your model's texture end up decorating your new, materialized house.

Mine go grey, white or pink. There is no hint of the original texture's colours.

I have tried adding a material and selecting a texture, as suggested, and on 1 test, out of about 50, have I had any impact on the model. Many models are completely unaffected. The console log reveals no errors.

Your video is quite compelling. It seems so simple.

 

Texture is baked from material attached to the mesh. And Texture #1 Name defines that texture property name inside material that will be baked per-vertex.
Models used in video do use materials (otherwise they will not be rendered at all).
Package includes example scenes, check 2. Faceted (low poly) effect scene and models there.



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Well, it's something to do with my project.

I created a new project and it works like the video.

Will have to come back to it later.

Thanks for the help!

 

Hi Arkhivrag,

Where can i find
"Export to OBJ"

from "Terrain to Mesh" Plugin ?

- EDIT:

ok i read the post about the external exporter - but why is none on board..
Tool is already included in Mesh Materializer asset.

 

Terrain To OBJ (included in the Terrain To Mesh plugin) will be added in the next weeks update.



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Update: All working. Love the asset. Really exactly what I was after, after all

 

Thx for the super fast integration!! Works perfect for reedit stuff in Zbrush.

 

can reduce vertex and triangle?

 

Only for terrains.



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Hi,

Amazing asset. However, I keep getting the following error:
Shader error in 'VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Standard': invalid subscript 'boxMax' at Assets/VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Shaders/cginc/VertexColor_UnityStandardCore.cginc(275) (on d3d11)

Compiling Vertex program with DIRECTIONAL
Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA

I am using unity 5.5.0f3 though...is this just something that needs tweaked in an update? The game does still seem to build and run ok, so it's not a critical issue, just thought i'd mention it.

 

Standard shader .cginc files are changed in Unity 5.5 and need update (in all my assets). Already working on it.



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That's a shame for you, but glad you're working on it!
Thanks for the quick reply!

 

There is no VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Standard shader in the package, same as VertexColor_UnityStandardCore.cginc file
As I remember there was such but removed in v1.36, so do not expect it in upcoming update.



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Hi. I'm not really sure what you mean. Are you saying I just have some old obsolete files in my project?
Do I just need to remove and re-download the asset?

On a possibly related note...I've been using your asset for a while now (so used with various different versions of unity and the asset), but whenever I've 'meshed' something (generally terrain) it initially appears as a big magenta blob. I always have to change the shader to vertex color/standard (specular setup) to get it to appear the way i'd expect. Is this normal?

 

Also also (apologies for all the messages) but regarding the initial shader error, i do get the same errors with the 'Standard (Specular Setup)' shader too...game still seems to build ok manually, but it causes the unity cloud build to fail:

340: [Unity] Shader error in 'VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Standard (Specular setup)': invalid subscript 'boxMax' at Assets/VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Shaders/cginc/VertexColor_UnityStandardCore.cginc(275) (on d3d9)
341: [Unity] Shader error in 'VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Standard (Specular setup)': invalid subscript 'boxMax' at Assets/VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Shaders/cginc/VertexColor_UnityStandardCore.cginc(275) (on d3d11)
342: [Unity] Shader error in 'VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Standard (Specular setup)': invalid subscript 'boxMax' at Assets/VacuumShaders/Vertex Color/Shaders/cginc/VertexColor_UnityStandardCore.cginc(275) (on d3d11_9x)

Again, sorry for bombarding you with all this, especially if it's something you've already got covered, just wanted to give you as much info as I could whilst I'm here!

 

does Mesh asset optimizer or another tool in this series integrate with flat mesh generator to make the corresponding higher poly mesh more low-poly?

 

Such files do not exist in MM (since Unity 5.3, released Dec, 2015). Completely remove package from the project and download fresh one.




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There is not tool for vertex count reduction.
Included mesh optimizer tool reduces file size by compressing mesh per-vertex data or removing some unused buffers.



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Hi.
thanks, i removed the asset, cleared the cache and re-imported. It cleared the errors i was getting, I guess i must have been stuck with some old cached version as the shader list looks totally different.

However, I've now got a new weird issue. Everything seems fine when i run in the editor, but when i build to a standalone windows player, using either the 'physically based' or 'one directional light' shader, the mesh becomes slightly transparent...you get a weird outline effect on the objects that you can see through the 'meshed' terrain.
if I switch to the legacy shaders then it works as expected. Any idea on that, or is this part of the unity 5.5 issue you're working on?

 

Add shaders from Vertex Color Shaders\Shaders\Resources folder to the Always Included Shaders array in the Edit\Project Settings\Graphics windows.



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Support,
So I have been trying to upgrade from the Terrain to Mesh plugin to the full blown package for over a week now. I put a support ticket into Unity but have yet to hear back from them. Im registered under garryclark@gmail.com. Everytime i click purchase after selecting the upgrade it throws an error.

Any other paths to procuring the upgrade or anyone else had this issue?

 

Contact Asset Store Support.



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It's strange that Unity does not add them to the build automatically as they are inside Resources folder.



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Sorry if this is a newbie question... the tutorial videos make it all look so easy but I'm getting the following warnings on all of my meshes:
(mesh name) materials[0] texture parameter (_MainTex) is empty. Main texture will not be baked.
and I lose the color on most of the generated mesh.

I can see from the manual that textures need to be made read/writable, which I've done. And that only certain compression types are supported. I've set texture compression to 'Don't override' in Build Settings and set all textures to ARGB32.

What am I doing wrong?

Also, could you give a bit of information about the Optimize settings?
Docs just say:

GPU Optimize - Optimizes the mesh for GPU access.

- but can you give examples of when would this be a good idea? And when not?​

Save With Mesh – Excluding per-vertex data reduce file size.

- Which of the options in the Per Vertex data can safely be removed and under what circumstances? A little more information on the theory would be really useful. From my sketchy knowledge I'm assuming I should keep uv if using textures, and uv2 if baking lightmaps, but the others?​

 

You are trying to bake _MainTex texture but material (used by mesh)has no texture assigned.
Check texture parameter name you are baking and material, if it uses that texture.

It is necessary for run-time use only. Editor tool does it automatically.

This operation can take a while, but makes the geometry displayed much faster, it optimizes the triangles for vertex cache.

If mesh uses Unlit shader then there is no need to have Normal and Tangent buffers.
If baking static mesh from Skeletal mesh, Skin buffer can be removed too.
Everything depends how/where you use mesh.



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Thanks for that extra information, it's really useful.

Re texture baking...

Most do have textures, e.g.

Could it be because I'm using ProBuilder meshes?

Or is it just failing to detect colour very well?

What if I'm using mesh materialiser on a collection of meshes with different materials, i.e. some have textures some don't. Is that ok? Will it transfer just the color of the ones that don't have textures and will it try to average out the colour of the ones with textures?

I'm starting to realise that maybe I need to not combine the meshes right away and work with the color adjustments some more to make each part look right, and then to combine everything together - this time with just Color as the bake setting (and including vertex colors)

Is that right, do I understand this asset correctly?

Finally, can I ask whether it's possible to import a finished, generated mesh and its material into a Unity 5.3.4 project? I know the package won't import on anything lower than 5.3.6 but I can't upgrade some projects that could really benefit from this great asset...

Many thanks