Should MeshMagick be integrated into the OGRE repo?

[sercero]

I was wondering why MeshMagick sits apart from the rest of the OGRE tools.

[paroj]

it was started outside of Ogre, thats why it never was part of the Ogre tools. However, since I switched Ogre to the monotree approach, it could be merged.

That being said, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of interest or usage of the tool, and it would need to be updated to align with Ogre's current build, test, and documentation frameworks.

[sercero]

I think it would be useful to have amongst the other tools that come with OGRE, perhaps people are not aware of the tool because of that.

Anyway I wanted to know if you were open to integrating it....

[paroj]

the problem with integrating meshmagick is that it is also a library as shown by the doxygen file in the repo. So we would need to split it into a component and a tool which complicates things.

Also one should clean up the code before merging:

• replace tootle
• remove the ogre-next ifdefs

for now I have added it to the tools page on the website:
https://www.ogre3d.org/download/tools

[sercero]

the problem with integrating meshmagick is that it is also a library as shown by the doxygen file in the repo. So we would need to split it into a component and a tool which complicates things.

Also one should clean up the code before merging:

• replace tootle
• remove the ogre-next ifdefs

for now I have added it to the tools page on the website: https://www.ogre3d.org/download/tools

Is tootle obsolete?

If there are ogre-next ifdefs then perhaps it is an argument against integrating it into this repo...

[paroj]

Is tootle obsolete?

yes, see OGRECave/meshmagick#7

If there are ogre-next ifdefs then perhaps it is an argument against integrating it into this repo...

it is actually a separate branch. forgot the details.

looking at the commits, it seems that tootle is the most used feature. For that we could just improve -optvtxcache in MeshUpgrader by using meshoptimizer directly.

[sercero]

Is tootle obsolete?

yes, see OGRECave/meshmagick#7

OK, tootle is discontinued by AMD but is it not useful anymore?

If there are ogre-next ifdefs then perhaps it is an argument against integrating it into this repo...

it is actually a separate branch. forgot the details.

looking at the commits, it seems that tootle is the most used feature. For that we could just improve -optvtxcache in MeshUpgrader by using meshoptimizer directly.

Is it a proper replacement for tootle? I'm asking from ignorance.

Thanks

[paroj]

Is it a proper replacement for tootle? I'm asking from ignorance.

I have no idea how what the ranking of current -optvtxcache vs tootle vs meshoptimizer is. Someone would need to benchmark I guess..