MonoGame Feature Wishlist

willmotil · January 10, 2019, 11:47am

I have a mesh maker peon here, but im not sure it will help with what you were doing previously. As it seemed to me you were trying keep the mesh quads separate.

github.com

willmotil/MonoGameUtilityClasses/blob/master/SurfaceMesh.cs

using System;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;
using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input;

namespace Microsoft.Xna.Framework
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Will Motill 2016. - 2018
    /// This class provides methods to build indexed triangle meshes from a grid of positional points.
    /// It also provides the ability to create smooth normals and generate simple tangents for normal mapping.
    /// </summary>
    public class SurfaceMesh
    {
        public bool showConsoleInfo = false;
        public bool invertXtextureCoordinatesCreation = false;
        public bool invertYtextureCoordinatesCreation = true;
        public bool invertNormalsOnCreation = false;
        int surfacePointWidth = 0;

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You basically feed this a vector3 array of points like a height map and it generates a mesh that will map to a texture and pretty much everything including normals and tangents for normal mapping i didn’t include bi-normals as i typically calculate them on the shader as its cheap.