This adds a new Chaos Implicit Object TWeightedLatticeImplicitObject which can wrap any (bounded) rigid implicit object with a weighted lattice. The lattice deforms via Linear Blend Skinning and is used to approximate deformation of the wrapped rigid implicit object.
A new physics asset FKShapeElem type has been added: the FKSkinnedLevelSet which holds a TWeightedLatticeImplicitObject<FLevelSet>. The PhysicsAssetEditor has been updated to generate this for skeletal meshes. Skinned level sets can be generated from a subset of bones in the skeletal mesh. Weights are transferred by Poisson diffusing weights on the surface to the volumetric lattice points.
There is limited debug draw and the asset generation workflow likely will need iteration.
#preflight 63d9b7f48505ea6b1fd4abb4
#rb kriss.gossart
[CL 23950693 by Alex McAdams in ue5-main branch]
Weights are now using uint16 but one variable was still uint8
#rb alex.mcadams
#preflight 636152b8397c7af89670c8a1
[CL 22885984 by tyson brochu in ue5-main branch]
The main change is that FSoftSkinVertex, used by FSkeletalMeshLODModel, in now stores weights as 16-bit after conversion from the import data. This increases the size of each FSoftSkinVertex from 144 bytes to 160 bytes (about 10% increase). By default render meshes still use 8-bit skin weights, with weights downshifted from the 16-bit modeling data, so no change in GPU memory consumption there. However, the vertex buffer will automatically return a 16-bit skin weights when requested from the GPU side (e.g. for CPU skinning and viewing tangents).
This change in the model data and vertex buffer CPU-side query, resulted in many changes throughout the codebase and will have an effect on licensees who are actively reading from and writing to these two storage locations.
The GPU skin cache shader has had one more permutation added when not using unlimited skin weights. The vertex factory is not affected.
#jira UE-164386
#rb alexis.matte, josie.yang
#preflight 632c0c5ab4515b7e22b4804d
[CL 22215219 by halfdan ingvarsson in ue5-main branch]
#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]
#preflight 61f277cbaf74b68515c0bd64
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: andrew.davidson
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18751911 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18751924 via CL 18752067
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Test -> Main) (v903-18687472)
[CL 18752076 by andrew davidson in ue5-main branch]
Also remove unnecessary allocations by allowing the async task to assume ownership of the vertex and index arrays passed to it.
#rb Andy.Davidson, Cedric.Caillaud
#jira UE-125187
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: richard.talbotwatkin
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17448234 in //UE5/Main/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Main -> Release-Engine-Test) (v870-17433530)
[CL 17448242 by richard talbotwatkin in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
