The meshops API is a layer above the micromesh SDK, that provides easier usage and higher level operations.
The functions within typically operate on a single mesh provided in memory through an abstraction called meshops::MeshView.
Basic operations for this library can be found here.
While the micromesh core is storage agnostic, the meshops layer is design around using the bary container. As a result the library also hosts the microutils namespace and utilities, which handle some micromesh related operations on top of the bary file containers provided through bary or baryutils. The primary usecase are compression related functions.
This layer makes use of a Vulkan implementation for the various GPU-based operations and leverages nvpro_core's nvvk utilities.
It is possible to use this API without explicitly accessing any Vulkan resources, or creating a custom Vulkan context. However, it does also support this to be embedded in an interactive viewer.
The headers in include/meshops_internal are strictly meant for other meshops libraries, and not meant as public interface for this api.
Currently this library is still a bit more work in progress and subject to changes, until we have migrated all tools into micromesh_tool and refactored the micromesh_viewer. We might move or hide the microutils layer in future.
A few upcoming changes for MeshView:
- reduce template nesting, improve debugging
- remove bitangent vector and rely only on 4 component tangents
- add more texcoords and colors in MeshView