How to read a vertice's uv coordinates?

#1

Hi,

I want to write a function that returns the uv coordinates of a specified mesh vertice. I read through the section “Understanding Texture Coordinates and Vertex Colors”, esp. the paragraph “Finding the corresponding vertices”:

In order to find out which texture vertex corresponds to a mesh vertex, you have to do the following:

  1. Take the index of the mesh vertex.
  2. Find out which faces reference the index of the face.
  3. Note the number of the vertex (1st, 2nd or 3rd - .x, .y or .z) inside each face.
  4. For each face referencing the vertex, get the texture face with the same index.
  5. Get the index of the respective texture vertex from the face - 1st, 2nd or 3rd / .x, .y or .z
  6. The vertex you got corresonds to the mesh vertex we started with.
  7. Repeat steps 3 to 6 for all faces found.
    Same applies to color vertices.

So, my function looks like this:

-- Returns mapping coordinates of the indexed vertice in uv space
  fn getUVCoordByVert theMesh mapChannel vertIndex = (
  	local faces = (meshOp.getFacesUsingVert theMesh vertIndex) as array	-- All faces using this vertice
  	local vertices = (meshOp.getVertsUsingFace theMesh faces[1]) as array	-- All vertices using the first face
  	local mapVertIndices = meshOp.getMapFace theMesh mapChannel faces[1] 	-- All map vertices using the same face in the same order
  	local mapVertIndex = -1
  	for i = 1 to vertices.count do (
  		if vertices[i] == vertIndex then (
  			mapVertIndex = mapVertIndices[i] as integer
  		)
  	) 
  	return (meshOp.getMapVert theMesh mapChannel mapVertIndex)		-- Return UV coordinates
  )

But it doesn’t work very well because there are sometimes ambigous results in the getMapFace array and I’m not sure if I use them right.
Can somebody help me out?

Christian

#2

This link can help you to understand the mapping coordinates.


You will probably have ideas by looking the functions of this script…

#3

When I said “note the number inside the face - .x, .y, .z”, I REALLY meant the components of the face.

local faces = (meshOp.getFacesUsingVert theMesh vertIndex) as array
–returns an array of faces.

mapVertices = #() --init. an array to collect all map verts corresponding to vertIndex.

–Now for each face, use

for theFace in faces do
(
theFaceDef = getFace theMesh theFace

–theFaceDef will be a Point3 value where .x, .y and .z point at 3 vertices.

–Get the map face with the same index (theFace)

theMapFace = meshOp.getMapFace theMesh mapChannel theFace

–Now you can check which one of the 3 face’s vertices is the one you are looking for:

if theFaceDef.x == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.x as integer
if theFaceDef.y == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.y as integer
if theFaceDef.z == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.z as integer

–So at this point, theMapVert contains the index of a map vertex that corresponds
–to the verIndex parameter you passed to the function.

if findItem mapVertices theMapVert == 0 do
append mapVertices theMapVert --add to the array if not already there

)
–You repeat the same for all other faces and in the end,
–mapVertices will contain all map verts corresponding to your mesh vertex.

…

Here is the whole function:


fn getUVCoordByVert theMesh mapChannel vertIndex = (
	  local faces = (meshOp.getFacesUsingVert theMesh vertIndex) as array
	mapVertices = #()
	for theFace in faces do
	(
		theFaceDef = getFace theMesh theFace
		theMapFace = meshOp.getMapFace theMesh mapChannel theFace
		if theFaceDef.x == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.x as integer
		if theFaceDef.y == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.y as integer
		if theFaceDef.z == vertIndex then theMapVert = theMapFace.z as integer
		if findItem mapVertices theMapVert  == 0 do append mapVertices theMapVert 
	  ) 
	  return mapVertices 
  )
  
  getUVCoordByVert $ 1 1
#4

Thank you both for helping me understand the whole topic better!

When I said “note the number inside the face - .x, .y, .z”, I REALLY meant the components of the face.

So you are one of the guys who wrote the 3d max help? You’ve done a great job, the 3ds max help is by far the best of all 3d applications I know!

Christian

#5

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