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PointCache Bake Tool Addition / Export order (Feedback request)

Discussion in 'Visual Effect Graph' started by kai303, Feb 15, 2021.

  1. kai303

    kai303

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    point_transition.gif gif_animation_003.gif Screenshot 2021-02-15 113420.png Screenshot 2021-02-15 113516.png Hi there!

    I made a little addition to the pCache bake tool, that allows to set the order of the exported points based on their axis position or their distance from the origin / center of the mesh bounding box.

    Please give me some feeback if that is something that can also be helpful to other people - in that case I would think about putting some extra effort to make an official pull request on github.

    Sorry for the crappy gifs, but I think you get the idea what this feature can be used for... ;)
     
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  2. kai303

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    So it seems that nobody else needs spatial order in exported point caches, except me :D
    Just in case somebody stumbles across this post in the future and wants to know how do it, just send me a msg on twitter (@karuma303) because I don't check the forum here on a regular basis
     
  3. andybak

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    @kai303

    I can see myself needing this as some point.

    I'm not using pcache (baking textures at runtime instead but that might change.
     
  4. kai303

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    here is the modified version
     

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  6. Matjio

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    Thanks for making this and sharing @kai303!
    In our new public roadmap (being soft launched), you can add a request for such a feature in the Submit an idea card and link this post as a reference. Go to the Rendering & Visual Effects page, under the Visual Effect Graph section, and vote then comment on the Submit a new idea card at the bottom, in the Under consideration sub section.
     
  7. andybak

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    Isn't that the same as the existing roadmap - except in an embedded iframe that doesn't quite fit properly and gives horizontal scrollbars?

    (I guess "soft-launch" gets you off the hook but please don't launch something worse than the current roadmap. It was pleasingly clean and uncluttered. A scrolling div inside another scrolling page is usually a terrible idea)