InstantMeshes plugin development

[djoerg]

Hi, first, thanks for trying to bring more features to MeshRoom. Highly appreciate it!

I'm curious if the obj format that InstantMeshes exports have ever worked on the Texturing node. If've tried using InstantMeshes manualy, before i found your plugin, and the Texturing node always failed to load it. Sadly it's the same with your plugin. After fiddling around a little bit, it seems to me that the Texturing node can't handle quad meshes. After converting the IM output to a pure triangle mesh via Meshlab and exporting it without normals or color, the Texturing node works. Including normals also leads to failure! I've looked at the exported obj in an text editor and it turns out that IM is also exporting the mesh with normals!

How have you used your InstantMeshes node inside Meshroom? Have you ever feed it directly into the Texturing node or have you put some other nodes in between? Or, maybe it worked in an older version of MeshRoom? (I tried it with the 2019.2 version)

I really hope there's a solution for this. InstantMeshes works so well for automatic retopology, i would love to use it in a MeshRoom workflow.

Btw, i'm a software developer and i love the fact that it's so easy to implemet new nodes with python, so i would like to implement some own nodes or wrap some external CLI tools into nodes, but i have nearly no knowlegde about MeshRoom. It seems to me, that you have a fairly good understanding how MeshRoom works. Maybe we could work together (or share some knowledge) bringing more features to MeshRoom?