3DPixel ( TITLE RE-EDITED :-) )

MoKaLux

I have been working playing for the last couple of weeks and came up with an app.
I would be happy to have some feedback from you guys.
https://mokalux.itch.io/3d-to-spritesheet
In short the app allows you to export your 3D animation to 2D images for your 2D games (spritesheet) or gideros texturepack.
This is a demo only as I plan to sell it (God's willing).

Thank you and take care!

PS: thank you all for your help on the forum, I mean you ALL

PS: I should post a YT video later on today

keszegh

quick comments:
- mouse could rotate the view (or ctrl+mouse or alt+mouse or something, check the standard shortcuts in blender how to rotate/zoom/pan with mouse, its a good idea to follow those)
- buttons remain hovered randomly even after i move the cursor away

keszegh

i think this is exactly the kind of app which would benefit a lot from using imgui. then many features would come out of the box (also no issues with hovering like you have now) and would look more 'professional' also. you could tab things together, separate windows could be moved around etc, i think if you invest a week into it you can recreate the same gui in imgui just much better.

SinisterSoft

For buyers, could you include a Lua class that could load 3D data files and from that generate the sprite sheets in code? This would save RAM and allow manipulation of things such as colour, etc - eg if it's a car game and the user changes the colour of the car or adds bits to the car.

keszegh

while i like all the strange things made with gideros, it would make sense to elevate all the features of a 3d editor and make such an add-on within say blender (as the best free one). there are such attempts already e.g.
https://kilbeeu.itch.io/get-sheet-done
https://github.com/johnferley/Game-Sprite-Creator

MoKaLux

keszegh said:

- mouse could rotate the view (or ctrl+mouse or alt+mouse or something)
- buttons remain hovered randomly even after i move the cursor away

I will test, see if I can achieve those
For the buttons I may remove all the hover effects and leave only a standard button.

keszegh said:

i think this is exactly the kind of app which would benefit a lot from using imgui.

100% agree but I wanted to get it out asap I need to invest more time in the gui for sure.

SinisterSoft said:

For buyers, could you include a Lua class that could load 3D data files and from that generate the sprite sheets in code? This would save RAM and allow manipulation of things such as colour, etc

In the class I would need to let you choose the angles you want to generate the sprite sheet (top, down, 3/4, ...). I wanted to add post processing effect but I had no screen space available. Adding post processing is still something I keep in mind (gideros lua shaders or setColorTransform) but that's a completely different app.

keszegh said:

there are such attempts already e.g.
https://kilbeeu.itch.io/get-sheet-done
https://github.com/johnferley/Game-Sprite-Creator

I have been looking at alternatives, and I have had this idea for a long time and gideros made it possible.

My app does not deal with complex textures for fbx, I am working on it firstFIXED

Thank you for your time and feedback, much appreciated

MoKaLux

A first test I did for a gj using the tool. So I took a huge 3D city from cgtrader (a free obj model) then I picked up an angle (facing right in this case), scaled it and generated a 5128*861 picture of the whole city.

You can see the result here https://mokalux.itch.io/gcgj30-parkour

MoKaLux

I think I am done with the tool
You can see an example of a mixamo exported anim (same link as above https://mokalux.itch.io/gcgj30-parkour)

Should update the itch.io page for the tool soon. Tell me what you think please


PS: I have used rrraptor excellent camera class, thank you rrraptor

MoKaLux

new demo available, some testers? please https://mokalux.itch.io/3d-to-spritesheet thank you

MoKaLux

Dear giderians I am polishing my app and I have a question for you please.

Currently my app uses 5-6% of my cpu (windows 10, I7, 8Gb Ram).

I thought I could lower down the cpu usage if I didn't call listeners for my hundred buttons in the onEnterFrame. So I did some changes so the listeners are only called when the mouse button is pressed. The problem is that it works (I use print to check) but when I build and test the app it still uses 5-6% cpu.

My questions: do you think it is poor design on my side? is 5-6% constant cpu usage a lot while my app is running?

Thank you for your precious answers

PS: I tried with gideros profiler but I couldn't spot what process is always running (must be the enterframe I suppose?)

PS2: do you like the UI?
PS3: itch.io NOT updated

MoKaLux

keszegh

Creepy.

SinisterSoft

I had a go with the v1 version. It's a nice tool. You could benefit from using imgui though, I'm currently switching the basics of my report writing program to use it and it's really good.

I also think what you should do is have some kind of registration code system. Then ask @hgy29 to include it in the official build (but as a compiled Lua program). It would then be one of the built-in tools.

Have some free functionality, but have it fully unlocked for people who have a correct email + registration code combination.

MoKaLux

Thank you for trying it SinisterSoft

SinisterSoft said:

I had a go with the v1 version. It's a nice tool. You could benefit from using imgui though ... and it's really good.

I am thinking about it but first I need to release it to the public. In my case it's only buttons you click, no windows, no drop down menu, ... I will try imgui sooner than later.

SinisterSoft said:

... ask @hgy29 to include it in the official build (but as a compiled Lua program). It would then be one of the built-in tools.

Adding another 100Mb to gideros builds

SinisterSoft said:

Have some free functionality, but have it fully unlocked for people who have a correct email + registration code combination.

The .obj part will be free but not the anim (.json) part

I have learnt a bit about gideros/blender and 3D doing this app and I need to commit one or two things to gideros. I am launching it soon to the market so I need to do some advertising and stuff. Then when it is launched I could concentrate on improving it and commiting to gideros 3D, and ...

MoKaLux

First part of a tutorial about viewing your .obj in the app:


Second part should be about animation and .json file (fbx-conv_2020_03)...