#jira UE-122078
#rb Andrew.Davidson, Colin.McGinley
#preflight standard build
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: fred.kimberley
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18817999 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18818012 via CL 18822871
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Test -> Main) (v910-18824042)
[CL 18824721 by fred kimberley in ue5-main branch]
- The MeshDescription for each source model LOD is now wrapped in a UStaticMeshDescription, meaning that it can be transacted separately to the parent static mesh. This improves memory and time performance in static mesh transactions, e.g. when assigning materials.
- FStaticMeshSourceModel now has its own API for managing the mesh description and its bulk data.
- A new optional Hi-res SourceModel member has been added to StaticMesh; this allows the original source data to be stored here, while a reduced LOD0 can be stored as SourceModel LOD0, to allow geometry modelling tools to work efficiently.
- MeshDescription is now serialized using a proxy archive object which ensures that FNames can always be archived as strings.
- UStaticMeshDescription is now serialized.
- UStaticMeshDescription has been reverted to only holding its own mesh description, instead of being able to reference any external mesh description. This previous change was never released.
- RawMesh is now immediately converted to MeshDescription in PostLoad, so that the MeshDescription[BulkData] pointers are always valid, and can be tag serialised automatically during transactions. RawMesh should now not be used in the editor at all, and will soon be deprecated.
This change results in far quicker and memory-efficient transactions in StaticMeshes. e.g. assign material to a static mesh section for a 20000 vertex mesh now takes less than a second (discounting time to rebuild the render proxy) instead of 7+ seconds.
#rb Alexis.Matte, Danny.Couture
[CL 15248935 by Richard TalbotWatkin in ue5-main branch]
Prepared direct attribute access for deprecation, preferring use of APIs to access static mesh attributes.
Fixed recently merged Enterprise code to comply with new APIs.
Changed all tools to use triangle-centric iteration where possible.
Added new MeshAttributeArray APIs for querying attribute flags, and added a new Mandatory flag.
Various bug fixes.
#rb Alexis.Matte
[CL 13873755 by Richard TalbotWatkin in ue5-main branch]
- Removed hardcoded element type arrays (Vertices, Edges, Triangles etc.). Mesh element types can now be arbitrarily added, with any number of channels.
- Mesh element containers have a much leaner format; instead of sparse arrays, they are now represented by a simple bitarray, determining whether an index is used or not. Consequently, mesh topology is now entirely described with the attribute system, e.g. edge start and end vertices, triangle vertices, etc.
- Support added for attributes of arbitrary dimensions, e.g. float[4] or int[2].
- Support added for attributes which index into another mesh element container.
- Added FMeshElementIndexer: this is an efficient container for maintaining backward references from one element type to another; for example, edges have an attribute specifying which vertices are at each end (an attribute of type FVertexID[2]). With an indexer, it is possible to look up which edges contain a given vertex, even though this is not explicitly stored. Indexers are designed to do minimal allocations and update lazily and in batch when necessary.
- Added support for preserving UV topology in static meshes. UVs are now a first-class element type which may be indexed directly from triangles.
- Added the facility to access the underlying array in an attribute array directly.
- Triangles now directly reference their vertex, edge and UV IDs. Vertex instances are to be deprecated.
- Changed various systems to be triangle-centric rather than polygon-centric, as this is faster. Triangles are presumed to be the elementary face type in a MeshDescription, even if polygons are still supported. The concept of polygons will be somewhat shifted to mean a group of triangles which should be treated collectively for editing purposes.
- Optimised normal/tangent generation and FBX import.
- Deprecated EditableMesh, MeshEditor and StaticMeshEditorExtension plugins - these are to be removed, but they still have certain hooks in place which need removing.
#rb
[CL 13568702 by Richard TalbotWatkin in ue5-main branch]
#rnx
#rb none
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: ryan.durand
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: ryan.durand
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 10869210 via CL 10869511 via CL 10869900
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: (v613-10869866)
[CL 10870549 by ryan durand in Main branch]
