Author Topic: [Blender Plugin] Blockland Save Importer (for 2.8) (Read 9402 times)

Masterlegodude · August 30, 2019, 09:15:58 PM

Quote from: Ahead on August 30, 2019, 07:29:51 PM

I do plan on bringing it over to 2.79 and I definitely do plan on making it so you can specify where your blockland directory is

Sweet, when you get the directory config set up, can you add that to the updated BLB importer?
https://gitlab.com/Redo0/io_mesh_blb

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Wrapperup · August 30, 2019, 11:45:47 PM

Don't use the bump node, make a proper normal map for the stud (if you wanna use the stud as a normal map anyway) and plug in the normal map. Generated normal maps don't work properly in Eevee which is why they look pixelated in the material view or even the Eevee renders.

You could bake out the normal map generated from the bump node and use that, as long as you use the normal map. The normal map node is gonna work better 99% of the time

Masterlegodude · August 31, 2019, 12:55:12 AM

I think the normal maps are also inverted in Blender for some reason, which is why the top of the brick studs looks like they dip inward even though your light source is mostly centered, rather than going around the brick to create that look

A way to fix that would be to invert the value of the normal map's intensity

Although, why include normal maps anyway when Blockland doesn't use them?

Wrapperup · August 31, 2019, 12:25:18 PM

Quote from: Masterlegodude on August 31, 2019, 12:55:12 AM

I think the normal maps are also inverted in Blender for some reason, which is why the top of the brick studs looks like they dip inward even though your light source is mostly centered, rather than going around the brick to create that look

A way to fix that would be to invert the value of the normal map's intensity

Although, why include normal maps anyway when Blockland doesn't use them?

Why not? Looks cool.

Also I believe the green channel is the only thing inverted (from a standard normal map) so inverting a normal map entirely will produce incorrect results. If you bake a normal map in blender it'll be correct anyway.

Ahead · August 31, 2019, 06:16:18 PM

Idea for possibly improving performance, when a brick mesh is added should I join all existing brick meshes into one? Just a thought

Insert Name Here� · August 31, 2019, 06:53:49 PM

make that an option / preference instead

SwiftHyena2593 · September 01, 2019, 07:02:37 AM

Is it possible to import prints?

Ahead · September 01, 2019, 01:37:34 PM

Quote from: SwiftHyena2593 on September 01, 2019, 07:02:37 AM

Is it possible to import prints?

Not at the moment (the importer puts the spray can texture as a placeholder) but I'll see what I can do

Ahead · September 03, 2019, 02:36:56 PM

Ok so I was thinking, I could overwrite the save bricks function in Blockland, more specifically, SaveBricks::WriteSingleBrick() to output the brick filename instead of the UI name (I don't want to rename a bunch of crap) and also make importing custom bricks easier, but I'm dumb and I don't know how to use getSubStr() to get the .blb filename from a fxDTSBrick's brickFile. For example, the save function trims out a string such as "Add-Ons/Brick_Thing/2x4x4Armor.blb" and outputs

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2x4x4Armor instead of

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Armor
Also I don't have a computer to test BL on so if someone could help me out that would be appreciated

Ahead · September 04, 2019, 11:46:21 AM

Updates

(moved to below post)

Should be out later today, depends

Ahead · September 04, 2019, 03:02:44 PM

New update is out, grab it here!

Now using Principled BSDF again (forgot to mention)
Join Brick Meshes option, imo this improves performance (but don't expect it to load big builds faster (please help with this thanks))
Use Normal Maps option, for you fancy Cycles people
Blockland directory config in the add-on dropdown, you need to set this up when you first install!

Ahead · September 04, 2019, 05:13:02 PM

ow

I'm going to try something with how ImportBLS() reads lines

Conan · September 04, 2019, 10:28:07 PM

>59.9 GB

what the forget kinda ram do you have

Ahead · September 04, 2019, 10:53:41 PM

Quote from: Conan on September 04, 2019, 10:28:07 PM

>59.9 GB

what the forget kinda ram do you have

4gb

Ahead · September 06, 2019, 05:15:29 PM

Released some minor updates with a version number and logging, also fixed that annoying warning message about deprecated stuff

still trying to figure out why everything is slow and eating up memory when loading large builds

ALSO I changed the add-on name & properly labeled it as community so remove the older one without a version number AND changed the repo name (sorry not sorry), should now be github.com/Ahe4d/io_mesh_bls