Typescript/Javascript MU file reader/writer

[PatPL1]

https://github.com/PatPL/muTS

I ported the blender python plugin (https://github.com/taniwha/io_object_mu) to Typescript.

You can use it to read and tweak values of MU files in JS based environments like a web browser on node application.

License:

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Example browser .mu model viewer created using (amongst other things) muTS:

Edited June 15, 2019 by PatPL1
license

[Snark]

Moving to Tools and Applications.

@PatPL1, can you please specify in your OP above what the license is for your script?

[PatPL1]

License is in the linked GitHub repo. I'll paste it in the OP if it's required.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

[Gargamel]

22 minutes ago, PatPL1 said:

I'll paste it in the OP if it's required.

If you would, thank you!

[Stone Blue]

THANX PatPL1!

I wonder if it will matter, that if you grabbed it from the master, that the master is for Blender v2.8 only...???

Any thoughts @taniwha?

 

Edited May 3, 2019 by Stone Blue

[PatPL1]

30 minutes ago, Stone Blue said:

THANX PatPL1!

I wonder if it will matter, that if you grabbed it from the master, that the master is for Blender v2.8 only...???

Any thoughts @taniwha?

 

I believe the blender version doesn't matter. The code I ported just reads the file and tries to represent it in a format easily understandable in the code. I didn't read all of the code, but I believe everything else there is just to display this data from easy to read from python object in Blender.

Other than that, the mu.py in master wasn't touched in like 5 months

[taniwha]

mu.py is almost entirely independent of blender (only the conversions of vectors and quaternions between left (unity) and right (blender) handed systems, and the triangle vertex order is blender-dependent), the same goes for most of the rest of the .py files in the top-level directory on the master branch (exception being __init__.py) as they are all various little command-line utilities.

[PatPL1]

@taniwha How did you figure out the structure of this format? I couldn't find any official references to work with. Did you just look at multiple files in hex editor and try to make sense of that? Did you contact someone from Squad?

[taniwha]

Mike (Mu) told me how to get at the source to parttools (which at the time was bundled in the parttools package). I did also use a hex viewer to double check detail.

[PatPL1]

Added an example of how muTS could be used.

Basic in browser .mu model preview: