Mini Maya

Mini Maya is a mesh editor application in the style of Autodesk Maya, developed in Qt with C++ and OpenGL.

Features

• Graphical User Interface
  Based on Qt widgets, users can select a certain vertex, half-edge or face by selecting widget items on Qt interface, the corresponding mesh components will be highlighted with special color in GUI. In addition, based on ray casting, users can directly click a certain mesh component to select it.

• Topology Editing Functions
  1) Add a vertex as the midpoint of the currently selected half-edge.
  2) Triangulate a selected face.
  3) Extrude a selected face along its geometric surface normal.
  4) Smooth a given polygon using Catmull-Clark subdivision.
   

• The OBJ File and JSON File Importing  

• Sharpness
  Allow the user to “sharp” specific faces, edges, and vertices during subdividing a mesh, also the user can set a “sharpness” value for any mesh component that has been tagged as sharp.
   

• Shader-based skin deformation
  Transform vertices based on the joints that influence them, deform the skin with the naive distance-based skinning function, the heat-diffusion style skinning function and the dual-quaternion skinning, respectively.