Hi , We are developing a virtual fitting room product for e-commerce websites. Our stack is blender and opencv for now. check this link here (experimental link we can take it down anytime
check the quality of cloth simulations we do in blender here
Valentina looks promising to generate the inputs for our flow. Is the .obj exporter functional. Or can some one suggest me other formats to look at ?
Right now we ask our Fashion Designer to do it in coral draw , trace the image in blender using bezier curves to generate the mesh. Please suggest efficient methods for the same. Thanks!
Unfortunately no. We have experimental implementation, but it is incorrect for your purposes.
The thing is we have a piece. This piece is a path of points (polygon). But you need a mesh. Look at my expirience in this direction:
Right now this feature has very low priority. We don’t have hands to add it. I need time for experiments i don’t have. Many ask us about this feature, but none want spend time and add this feature.
As i know there is possibility that we can export in .obj file just a path and Blender will open such file normally. But that just an idea. I don’t plan this feature in this year. Sorry.
added a small comparision video of two meshing algorithms here
Maybe I was not clear in the above video , I realized there is a .val to store and I am assuming that is an open format.
Is it possible for me to write a script to read , just the corner points with the tags like A0 , A1 etc
and spline information Spline_A0_A1(along with the bezier parameters that are creating the curve)
May be a txt dump of this should be a good starting point for us.
You are not first who think that he can easily read Valentina’s pattern format. Yes, this is just an XML based text file. But we do not store raw data inside. Instead we store instructions for Valentina how to calculate distances, angles, radiuses etc.
As an object curve with references (by id) to four points.
I don’t think Valentina is good choise for you. You probably need another solution.
Hey Dismine , We are really in an experimental mode right now , trying to get some prototypes done. It would be great if we can have a detailed discussion on Valentina + Blender Integration. May be a video call. We would love to contribute to this .obj exporter project in Valentina, main reason being the parametric nature of the software.
Is it possible to export the corner points alone ?
Using the corner points , inner points created by .svg import we can optimise for the best bezier parameters in blender. How about this approach ?
If not Valentina , can u suggest other softwares that are free and parametric enough like Valentina that we can look at ? Your help is very appreciated!
see!! so our best bet is to write the exporter for Valentina to get point and curve data out.
Also I checked out the .xml file , I am impressed how such a small file/instructions is doing so much magic behind. My expectations from the .val file were completely different until I opened it.
My Blender corrupted me to look for cordinates and edges , but this “series of calculations” is really impressive for me
So where do I start to understand the source to write the required exporter ?
Okay, first we should agree that we are speaking about current develop branch (future release 0.5.0).
When you have a detail on your pattern you can now extract data from class VPiece. Use search by name. The main path you need saved inside class VPiecePath. I don’t know how you will save data, but you can extract all data you need from this classes. All after VPiece that go to layout are converted to polyline.
Sorry for the elementary questions , won’t it be a good idea to start at the svg exporter code , which I am assuming will call the class vpiece and vpiece_path to create the svg points and curves
I can start modifying that code to get more control over the corner points and object curve(4points).
I don’t think you quite ready to discuss with me your plan. Spend some time for preparing and we will return to this discussion. Don’t seek an easy solution. What you want is not easy to achieve. This is hacking the code. If you are really planning to hack the code your questions should be more specific.
I’ll make a tutorial video of Pattern Making for Valentina users. Target audience is people, who don’t know what pattern making is, but want to start to use Valentina.
One of subject is to show how to transfer the 2D fabric in to 3D garment. Your video shows that perfectly.
Yes, the HD version would be excellent.
