Deform
LaunchedJun 20197y
UpdatedOct 20241.7yAbandoned?
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Odin Inspector is widely considered an essential, industry-standard tool that drastically accelerates development by simplifying complex inspector customization, enabling powerful serialization features like Dictionaries and polymorphic types, and allowing for rapid creation of designer-friendly tools. Its attribute-based workflow significantly reduces boilerplate code, improves editor organization, and empowers teams to build robust, bulletproof interfaces that enhance productivity and data management across all project stages.
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FEATURES
• Lightning fast!
• Fully multi-threaded!
• 40+ deformers!
• Meshes can be saved!
• Easily extendable!
• Works in worldspace!
• Custom editors and handles!
DOCUMENTATION
• Installation
• Getting Started
• Creating a Custom Deformer
• Optimization Tips
LIMITATIONS
Deform runs on the CPU. While it is incredibly fast, you should not expect to get performance comparable to vertex shaders. Because meshes are modified on the CPU each mesh has to be unique. This means that, unless dynamically batched (which comes with its own performance costs), each mesh will require a new draw call. Deform is not meant to be used at a massive scale. If you need to deform an entire world, tons of meshes, or an incredibly high poly model use vertex shaders.
Use shaders if you need speed, use Deform if you need modularity and ease-of-use.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Thomas Ingram for going the extra-mile to help with editor scripting.
Thanks to Alexander Ameye, William Besnard, Raphael Herdlicka and David Carney for beta testing and giving crucial feedback.
Additional massive thanks to the following contributors for helping develop Deform into the best tool it can be:
sabresaurus, Brullworfel, favoyang, and HitCache
CONTACT
I love seeing creative and cool uses of this tool. If you make something you're proud of I'd be honored if you showed it to me!
You can find me on the interwebs at these addresses:
website
If you need help with Deform, I'd love it if you created an issue on the repository instead of sending an email so other people can find the solution. That being said, feel free to reach out about anything! I'm always happy to talk shop :)
Key features
FEATURES:
- Calculations are multithreaded with the job system to make the most of system resources and lighten the load on the main thread.
- Mesh data/operations use Burst-friendly data types (float3, float4x4 etc) for shader-like effect-authoring, and high performance compiled code.
- Deform provides a framework for easily authoring performant mesh effects. Simply derive your class from Deformer to get started. Tutorial can be found here.
- Deformable meshes can be exported to .OBJ or Unity's native mesh asset format. FBX export is not supported, but you can use other tools like Unity's FBX Exporter package.
- Deformables can be automatically stripped from scenes in builds and when entering play-mode if you are not using Deform for runtime effects.
- Whenever sensible, every deformer is authored to work in worldspace. This means you can create a single effect, that can be shared seamlessly by multiple objects in the world.
- Most Deformer parameters are represented intuitively in the scene via custom handles.
SUPPORTED OS:
- Nothing is OS-specific, but be careful with performance on mobile and low-end hardware.
DOCUMENTATION:
Here :)