Wrap Change Log

Wrap 2024.11.10

Released November 2024

New Nodes

IconSelectPointPairsWithSplines SelectPointPairsWithSplines

Provides the full functionality of the SelectPointsWithSplines editor for point pairs

IconBlendTransforms BlendTransforms

Smoothly blends geometry rotations, e.g. for scaling or limiting eye angles

IconLoadCameraTransform LoadCameraTransform

Transforms and rotates cameras, including those imported from Agisoft™, RealityCapture™, Autodesk Maya™, and similar software

IconSaveCamera SaveCamera

Exports camera data in FBX format, compatible with Autodesk Maya™, Blender™, Cinema 4D™, Unreal Engine™, and more

IconMirrorGeom MirrorGeom

Mirrors geometry vertices, e.g. allowing effortless blendshape cleanup duplication

IconSwitchGeom SwitchGeom

Chooses and passes through one of the inputs to preview experimental changes

IconTransferVertexMask TransferVertexMask

Retains the same vertex mask across geometries with different topologies

IconComparisonVertexMask ComparisonVertexMask

Displays differences between two geometries as a vertex mask for easy visualization

IconVertexMaskToImage VertexMaskToImage

Creates an image from a vertex mask to use as a texture or import into e.g. Autodesk Maya™ or ZBrush™

IconImageGrid ImageGrid

Composes a parametrized layout of images with labels for organized previews

IconCorrectBrightness CorrectBrightness

Adjusts brightness, gamma, contrast, saturation, and other image properties

IconDistortImage DistortImage

Simulates lens distortion to match renders with raw camera photos

IconSavePolygons SavePolygons

Automatically saves a sequence of polygon selections

IconSmoothGeom SmoothGeom

Smooths high-frequency artifacts on geometry surface

Major Features

  • Graph & Editor Features:

    • Group Nodes: Divide and simplify node pipelines with groups. Use CTRL + SHIFT + G to group selected nodes.

    • Node Search: Navigate large projects faster with the find menu, activated by CTRL + F.

    • Matching Connections: Create nodes faster by auto-connecting inputs using type matching. Activate by hitting Tab or RMB during a connection.

    • Disable Nodes: Temporary disable slow or reference nodes to speed up project computations using CTRL + D.

    • Switch Between Nodes Shortcut: Move between selected node editors without Mouse by hitting PgUp and PgDwn.

  • Gallery:

    • Change Gallery Dir with just one button click.

    • Add Gallery and Show Containing Folder introduced to simplify navigation and gallery management.

  • Brush:

    • Optimized for Tablet usage.

    • Added Reference Image Projection for easier geometry editing. Cycle views with SHIFT + Space.

    • Added new brush types: Move Surface, Relax Surface, Mirror Clone, Clone Project and Erase.

    • Switch Vertex Masks and Visible Polygons with sliders right inside the node.

  • Single Alembic export:
  • VertexMask:

    • Optimized for Tablet usage with the new Draw Interval parameter.

    • Use Draw and Fill modes to define stroke overlap behaviour.

  • Cameras:

    • Export Wrap cameras as FBX with the new SaveCamera node.

    • Camera and LoadCamera now support rotating created/imported cameras. LoadImage now also supports image rotation and EXIF reading.

    • Added global transform support and improved error handling during imports.

    • Added imported camera name collision resolution.

  • StickContour:

    • Added Screen Points inputs alongside with Close By 2D Reference and Stick By 2D Reference modes.

  • Load Nodes:

    • Secured Data Integrity: Geometry files with invalid (NaN) values now trigger an error instead of being silently converted to zeros on reading.

    • Improved CLI Handling: When using the Command Line Interface, failed file reads are no longer cached, allowing for replace faulty inputs without restarts.

  • Python Project Script:

    • Added a dry run output window for testing scripts before using them in expressions.

    • Now recomputes when depending on functions like frame(), projectDir().

Minor Features

Bug Fixes

  • Compute All Nodes: Removed starting delay when computing ranges over 100K frames.

  • Gallery: Corrected UV of the WrapHead2 OBJ geometry.

  • Python Scripting: Fixed code editor freeze on long lines (over 10K symbols).

  • Undo: Fixed a bug when node removal undo erases node’s param scripts.

  • FastWrapping: Fixed caching issues where computed results were discarded (e.g., on wireframe changes).

  • LoadCamera: Fixed bugs related to importing XML camera files from Agisoft™.

  • LoadGeom: Fixed bug that prevented loading files named with extended Unicode charset.

  • MergeImage: Fixed a byte offset on merging RGB images.

  • PointDetector: Fixed crash on computation interrupting or missmatching free polygons.

  • Render: Fixed an incorrect overlaping of scaled input geometries.

  • Replace: Fixed mesh movement on Seamless Fitting and a crash on different topology inputs.

  • SelectPointsWithSplines: Fixed spline snapping on high DPI monitors and rotated inputs.

  • StickContour: Fixed incorrect contour deformation in both regular Lattice and Geodesic Lattice modes.

  • Wrapping nodes: Fixed an occasional crash when terminating a computation by pressing ESC.

Wrap 2023.11.4

Released November 2023

New Nodes

IconStickContour StickContour

adds a sticky-lips effect, closes lips and eyelids and minimizes manual cleanup.

Functionality

  • In SelectPointsWithSplines node improved drawing splines, added spline continuation on SHIFT + LMB.

  • In LoadTransform and CopyTransform nodes, added Apply Translation, Apply Rotation and Apply Scale params.

  • In SelectPolygons node, moved and renamed the Topological Mirror and + Topological Mirror buttons to Mirror and + Mirror.

  • In ModifyVertexMask node added Normalize mode.

  • In AlignGeomToCameras added Rotation Center Type parameter.

  • In Command Line Interface changed default value of WRAPCMD_NO_OPENGL to false. Thus OpenGL is enabled by default.

  • Added the following shortcuts in SelectPolygons node: * SHIFT + LMB double-click to add polygroup to selection, * CTRL + LMB double-click to remove polygroup from selection, * ALT + LMB double-click near selected polygons to select a loop.

Bug Fixes

  • In SelectPointsWithSplines node fixed a bug with incorrect cursor snapping on rotated geometry.

  • In SelectPointsWithSplines node fixed a bug after starting to draw a spline using the Alt + LMB shortcut.

  • In SelectPolygons node fixed a crash, when selection was loaded from file and input was disconnected.

  • In Brush node fixed a title mistake Hidden polygons to Visible polygons.

  • In VertexMask node fixed a bug, when clicking Inverse button leads to resetting the mask if no geometry was connected.

  • In Node-Graph Editor fixed a bug, when selecting half of selected nodes didn’t alter a selection.

  • In the gallery fixed UV of WrapHead2 OBJ geometry.

Wrap 2023.10.3

Released October 2023

Functionality

  • In WrapCMD restored running compute without args as computing frame 0. Interactive mode is now available with --interactive flag. Check Command Line Interface for details.

  • Finishing dialog after Compute All Nodes now is showing total computing time.

  • In MergePoints added a Visual Editor, Geometry input and Show Labels param.

Bug Fixes

  • In RemoveSpikes node removed geom connectivity requirement.

  • In PointDetector fixed OpenGL requirement. It’s now unnecessary for providing accepted result, only for computing.

  • In WrapCMD fixed error printing order.

  • In Compute All Nodes fixed progress bar freeze.

  • Fixed a crash when disconnecting multiple ouputs from multiple inputs in a specific order.

  • In Python code editor fixed highlighting with all unicode characters.

Wrap 2023.10.2

Released October 2023

Functionality

  • In Node-Graph Editor you now can select multiple nodes and Node Editor, Visual Editor and rest will still be shown for one of them, the active one. You can change the active node by clicking on one of selected ones or throught a list in the top of Node Editor block.

  • In Viewport2D Color Picker improved. Now shown hex is compatible with other softwares color pickers, such as Photoshop.

  • In Python code editor improved syntax highlighting.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a crash in WrapCMD when computing LoadVertices node without OpenGL context.

  • Fixed slowdown in ImageFacialWrapping node computations in batch mode over time on Windows.

  • In Python parameters expressions converting from color hex now assumes sRGB input format to match other softwares. Also expected colors are now stated as unpremulted.

  • In Compute All Nodes dialog fixed an error when nodes with errors prevent progressbar from moving.

  • In VertexMask visual editor fixed a bug when clicking in any place in viewport forces recomputing node’s output.

  • In LoadVertices fixed error formatting when can’t open file. Filepath isn’t appearing twice now.

  • In MergeVertexMask and Blendshapes fixed error when adjusting sliders couldn’t be undone with CTRL + Z.

  • In Blendshapes fixed incorrect normals in Visual Editor.

  • In Compute All Nodes dialog fixed an error when you could accidentally press ESC and hide a progress dialog forever.

  • Fixed an error when pressing Ctrl while dragging a dock panel didn’t make panel floating.

Wrap 2023.10.1

Released October 2023

Functionality

  • In FixSymmetry node added caching for finding symmetry.

  • In the WrapCMD added an environment variable WRAPCMD_NO_OPENGL to ignore OpenGL while computation.

Bug Fixes

  • In OpticalFlowWrapping fixed a crash when computing with empty point correspondences.

  • In SelectPointPairs fixed a crash when loading poits from file with missing input geometry.

  • In Node-Graph Editor fixed an error when releasing MMB or RMB during dragging a connection resulted in connecting to the closest plug.

Wrap 2023.09.5

Released September 2023

New Nodes

IconSelectPointsWithSplines SelectPointsWithSplines

lets you to draw precise splines on a model and sample them to named points

Functionality

  • Added a SelectPointsWithSplines node and example gallery project.

  • In Compute All Nodes dialog added settings cache and range progress info, fixed post-compute summary.

  • In LoadVertexMask improved error handling.

  • The project is now marked as unsaved when timeline range is changed.

Bug Fixes

  • In Compute All Nodes fixed an error where selected frame ranges are cleared when focus is removed.

  • In several nodes fixed Null point correspondences error when missing optional input.

  • In Node-Graph Editor fixed a crash after multiply clicking on node’s plugs.

Wrap 2023.09.3

Released September 2023

Functionality

  • Added TexturingXYZ project to the gallery.

  • Added Python project global script support.

  • Added expected type hints to Python parameters expressions and improved editor actions.

  • Added custom ranges support and Step Size param to Compute All Nodes.

  • Added several new shortcuts for the common menu tools.

  • In Command Line Interface added new options and mode helps.

  • In ImageFacialWrapping node added second facial detection support and additional caching, which speeds up computations after the first frame by 33%.

  • In FastWrapping node added Sampling Type param.

  • In LoadAlembic node added Frame and Frame Per Second params.

  • In SelectPolygons and ModifyVertexMask nodes added topological mirror and symmetrize tools.

  • In Node-Graph Editor added connection transparency and highlighting and removing elements with CTRL + LMB.

  • In MergeImage changed blend modes to work correctly with semitransparent images.

  • In MergeVertexMask added new modes and simplified formulas.

  • Added the ability to work with 32-bit images to node UndistortImage.

  • In saving nodes File Name defualt value changed to Frame######.ext for consistensy.

  • In image and camera nodes added Lock Aspect Ratio check to Resolution param and changed default resolutions to the common ones.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed crashes with several cases using nodeParamValue.

  • Fixed an error when editing multiple params partially defined by a Python expressions led to a crash.

  • Fixed errors when adding, removing and copy-pasting nodes with multiple inputs.

  • Fixed missing and wrong nodes recomputes on changing global values.

  • Fixed an error when node depending on $PROJECT_NAME or projectName(), didn’t recompute after saving project with new name.

  • Fixed an error when Path Interpretation worked too greedy and matched $PROJECT_NAME in the file names.

  • Fixed Compute All Nodes crash during computation Render node in CPU mode.

  • Fixed an error when Render node in CPU mode interpolates the texture with half pixel offset.

  • Fixed an error when Render node’s visual editor backgrounds reset to default on every project saving and preferences editing.

  • Fixed an error when Blendshapes node’s result had incorrectly directed normals.

  • Fixed an error when Wrappings computation was available during incorrect Point correspondences input.

  • Fixed an error when saving project with Python scripts containing brackets inside the quoutes lead to appearance of extra spacebars.

  • Fixed an error when Viewport2D UV fits to view only first UDIM of multiple UDIMs geometry.

  • Fixed an error when LoadFrameFromVideo default Frame expression reappears on reloading or copying.

  • Fixed an error when in param with Python expression of type list of strings could read a string as a sequence.

Wrap 2023.06.4

Released June 2023

New Nodes

IconUndistortCamera UndistortCamera

undistorts a camera

IconUndistortImage UndistortImage

adapts an image to the camera’s undistorted view

IconKeepDistance KeepDistance

maintains a given distance between two geometries given

IconCartoonWrapping CartoonWrapping

wrap cartoonish characters and creatures easily

IconOffsetSurface OffsetSurface

moves geometry’s vertices along it’s normals

IconStickToSurface StickToSurface

transfers topology between blendshapes sequences

IconFixIntersections FixIntersections

resolves geometry’s self-intersections or intersections with a collider

IconFillHoles FillHoles

fills holes in geometry with triangles

IconMergeGeom MergeGeom

merges multiple geometries into a signle one

IconProjectTextureThroughCameras ProjectTextureThroughCameras

creates a texture, which is a sum of masked projections of several other textures

IconAngularImageBlur AngularImageBlur

blurs an image by rotating around the given origin

IconBakeTransform BakeTransform

bakes geom’s transform into vertex positions

IconLoadFrameFromVideo LoadFrameFromVideo

loads a frame from a videofile as an image

IconLoadVertices LoadVertices

loads vertices from the PLY format to geometry

IconSaveVertices SaveVertices

saves geometry’s vertices to the PLY format

IconLoadCamera LoadCamera

loads a camera from variety of formats

IconSavePoints SavePoints

saves named points on triangles to file

IconLoadVertexMask LoadVertexMask

loads a vertex mask from file

IconSaveVertexMask SaveVertexMask

saves a vertex mask to file

Major Features

  • Autosave has been added. Turn it on in Preferences >> General.

  • Multiple Node Inputs has been added. In addition, several existing nodes have been updated, such as Render, Blendshapes, MergePoints, etc.

  • Floating images support has been added to LoadImage, SaveImage, MergeImage, ExtrapolateImage, ReplaceImageChannels, etc. In addition, most of Image nodes and Render can now be computed without OpenGL.

  • Large size images support has been added, such as 8K, 16K. Currently algorythms are still RAM-greedy. In Viewport2D now a downscaled image preview is shown instead.

  • In Viewport2D the top toolbar has been added. It supports changing Colorspaces and toggling Channels of image view. A Color Picker tool has been added, as well.

  • In node Node Editor Panel color choosing dialog has been improved. It supports Colorspaces, Ranges, HSV, and colors history.

Minor Features

Major Bugfixes

  • In LoadGeom has been fixed memory leak while loading a Draco.

  • While Compute Range memory block has been fixed. Previously, memory was freed only once you press OK in a dialog.

  • In Node-Graph Editor recursive connections crash has been fixed.

  • In many of Geometry nodes caching has been improved. Previously, changing Visual Param of input geometry such as color or wireframe visibility could break already cached nodes. It affects such node as RemoveSpikes, DeletePolygons, Blendshapes, etc.

  • In FastWrapping inconsistense Compute and Auto-Compute results has been fixed.

  • In FastWrapping freeze and crash on selected point on noisy detached geom has been fixed.

  • In Python parameter expressions several errors have been fixed. Now comments and semicolons can’t break one-liners.

  • License Activasion crash has been fixed on Linux.

Minor Bugfixes

  • In LoadGeom specific geom loading crash has been fixed.

  • In Node-Graph Editor ALT + LMB crash has been fixed. As well, the bug of removing nodes while moving it or it’s connection has been fixed.

  • In FastWrapping, Wrapping and other nodes with Auto-Compute a problem with no changing flag after closing the node’s editor has been fixed.

  • More detailed error messages of loading and updating projects have been added.

  • In Compute Range a proper error message has been added.

  • In Node-Graph Editor node names generating mistakes has been fixed.

  • In SelectPoints editor several UI problems have been fixed.

  • In SelectPointPairs visual editor missing point updates have been fixed.

  • In SelectPolygons visual editor the problem has been fixed. Display Mode is no more seted to Polygroups when the input geom has no polygroups.

  • In LoadPoints visual editor missing transform bug has been fixed.

Licenses

  • You can still use your existing R3DS licenses to activate Wrap. If such Nodelocked or Floating licenses would be found on your computer, they would be silently used to activate latest products, if possible. The more accurate scheme is: - If there is a new Faceform license already in the newest Faceform settings, then nothing will change. - If there is no old licenses on your computer, the License Dialog will work as previously. - If there is an old license on your computer, and there are no new, an old license would be taken and used as a new one. - Anytime, running Wrap, you still can go to License >> Activate License to activate new license instead of the old one.

Wrap 2021.11.3

Released November 2021

Bug Fixes

  • In Brush node, fixed crash on changing the symmetry mode.

Wrap 2021.11.2

Released November 2021

Functionality

  • Loading Wrap projects from a command line added.

  • In search node menu added more prior to first letters and capital letters. For example, searching for “lg” will quickly find LoadGeom node.

Bug Fixes

  • In Brush node, fixed crash on connecting geometry.

Upcoming Version

New Nodes

IconFastWrapping FastWrapping

works up to 20 times faster than a regular Wrapping node. The speed up is especially noticeable on highpoly base meshes

IconPointDetector PointDetector

automatically detects facial markers on FACS scans. Please check this tutorial to see how this node can significantly speed up the point selection process. This video explains how to setup this node to work with your custom topology.

IconUnsubdivideGeom UnsubdivideGeom

restores previous subdivision levels for meshes produced using Catmull-Clark subdivision

IconMatchTopology MatchTopology

matches the vertex order of your model with a given reference

IconFindTransform FindTransform

computes transformation between two models with the same topology

IconDeltaMush DeltaMush

moves mesh details from reference geometry to target geometry

IconImageToVertexMask ImageToVertexMask

converts an Image into a VertexMask

IconLoadPoints LoadPoints

loads named points

IconVertexMaskToPolygonSelection VertexMaskToPolygonSelection

converts a VertexMask into a PolygonSelection

Functionality

  • In SelectPointPairs node: if you select a set of points on one model, clicking Ctrl+F shortcut will fit the camera to the location of the next point on the second model. Please check this tutorial to see how it helps to speed up a point selection process.

  • Added a tooltip panel at the bottom left corner of the viewport and visual editors. It shows a list of shortcuts supported by the current tool. The tooltips are added to SelectPoints, SelectPolygons, SelectPointPairs, Brush, VertexMask, OpticalFlowWrapping, and PointDetector nodes.

  • WrapCmd and Node applications no longer require OpenGL. It makes it easier to run them on a farm and machines without graphics cards. The only nodes that require OpenGL 2.1 to compute are the ExtrapolateImage and Render nodes. When running on machines without graphic cards or with no OpenGL 2.1 available, these nodes will return an error.

  • Viewport3D and VisualEditor now support antialiasing.

  • In SaveGeom and SaveImage nodes have a new Create Intermediate Directories parameter. If it’s turned on, the node will create all the non-existing folders in the file path.

  • In SaveFacialDetection node computation can be performed in multiple parallel processes.

  • Render node has a Show Backfaces option.

  • DeletePolygons has an option to delete selected or non-selected polygons.

  • In MixGeom node: the Mask input parameter is now optional.

  • Added commonDir(), projectDir() and galleryDir() Python functions.

  • Nodes that have VertexMask as output data type has the ability to save VertexMask from the context menu in the graph editor.

  • When dragging-and-dropping a file into the graph editor a node will take the name of the source file.

  • Improved Preferences dialog.

  • Improved search in node menu.

Bug Fixes

  • In SelectPoints and SelectPointPairs nodes: fixed selection pixel tolerance for 4K screen.

  • In SelectPoints and SelectPointPairs nodes: fixed points selection for transformed meshes.

  • Changing Timeline current frame with Shift now doesn’t force all nodes to recompute.

  • Fixed a bug with saving node colors.

  • In MergeImage node: fixed transparent background bug.

  • In DeletePolygons node: fixed incorrect polygon group mapping.

  • In Wrap4DCmd fixed error tracing.

  • In several nodes, fixed $PROJECT_DIR support.

  • Improved file filters in some nodes that allow to import/export files.

Wrap 2020.12.2

Released December 2020

Functionality

  • When application crashes, it automatically saves its latest state to a crash dump file. A user can then manually send the file to the developers to help them the diagnose problem. The crush dump files can be located at $USERPROFILE/AppData/Local/Faceform/Wrap/CrashDumps for Windows, and at $HOME/.local/share/Faceform/Wrap/CrashDumps for Linux.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect UV winding order when loading meshes from Alembic files.

Wrap 2020.12.1

Released December 2020

Bug Fixes

  • In TransferTexture node the value of V parameter is now interpreted as flipped.

Wrap 2020.10.2

Released October 2020

Bug Fixes

  • In SelectPolygons the File Name parameter dialog was fixed so that one can specify a file name for not yet created file

Wrap 2020.10.1

Released October 2020

Functionality

  • MixGeom node has a new Blend parameter. It controls the mix amount between the two models.

  • Camera node can now import a camera from Reality Capture and Metashape. For Reality Capture version 1.0.3.9696 and earlier the import can be done only from an FBX file. Please check the documentation for more details.

  • Camera node has a new Principal Point parameter that allows changing the center of the optical axis.

Bug Fixes

  • A memory leak has been fixed in the MixGeom node during loading of files in Draco format. Previously it led to RAM overflow during processing of large sequences in batch mode.

Wrap 2020.08

Released 17 August 2020

New Nodes

IconCamera Camera

creates a camera that can be used for rendering, projecting ScreenPoints and other purpoces

IconCreateImage CreateImage

creates an image filled with a solid color

IconLoadAlembic LoadAlembic

loads geometry from Alembic format

IconLoadTransform LoadTransform

loads a transform from a file in JSON format

IconMergeImage MergeImage

overlays a foreground image over a background image

IconMergePoints MergePoints

merges two sets of points NamedPointsOnTriangle

IconMixGeom MixGeom

blends vertices of two meshes based on the value of a vertex mask

IconPointsToPointPairs PointsToPointPairs

converts two sets of points NamedPointsOnTriangle into PointCorrespondences

IconPolygonSelectionToVertexMask PolygonSelectionToVertexMask

converts a PolygonSelection into a VertexMask

IconRender Render

renders an input geometry through a Camera

IconReplaceImageChannels ReplaceImageChannels

replaces image channels of a given image. A second image can be used a source of the channels

IconSaveAlembic SaveAlembic

saves geometry into Alembic file

IconSaveTransform SaveTransform

saves transform to a file in JSON format

IconSelectPoints SelectPoints

lets you select named points on a model

IconTextImage TextImage

creates an image with a text on it

IconVertexMask VertexMask

allows painting a vertex mask on a mesh

Functionality

Bug Fixes

  • Fix camera navigation in the Brush node

Wrap 3.4.8

Released 17 June 2019

New Nodes

IconBlendWrapping BlendWrapping

provides an example-based wrapping method that reuses pre-existing wrapped meshes to improve the wrapping quality for further models. This node reduces the need for cleanup to a minimum

IconBrush Brush

provides a variety of brushes for mesh sculpting and cleanup. It is especially handy for fixing mesh artifacts after wrapping

IconCopyTransform CopyTransform

copies a transformation from one object to another

Functionality

  • Copy and paste of nodes

  • Drag and drop of models and images into the node graph

  • Compatibility with projects made in all the previous versions of Wrap3

  • New base meshes in Wrap gallery. Includes female fullbody, skull, and teeth

  • Improved gallery which includes project samples and can be extended with extra packs downloaded from our website

  • Support of non-latin characters in file paths

  • Menu of recently opened projects

  • Improved node-graph UI

  • Node alignment in node-graph

  • Node connection with click-and-drag

  • Saving a node result from the node context menu

  • UVs are no longer smoothed by SubdivideGeom node

  • 3D points in world-space coordinates (x,y,z) can now be imported into SelectPointPairs and SelectPoints nodes

Wrap 3.3.17

Released 05 April 2018

Functionality

  • Floating licenses support

    Wrap3 now can be used in floating license mode. Instructions how to set up license server one can find in floating documentation section.

Wrap 3.3.11

Released 24 November 2017

New Nodes

IconOpticalFlowWrapping OpticalFlowWrapping

Uses optical flow to fit a textured basemesh to a textured scan. The node can be used to fit a neutral mesh of an actor’s face to 3D scans of his facial expressions. It renders pairs of images of both models from different angles and finds optical flow between the images. For each image pair it generates a set of decisions on where to more each pixel. All the decisions are then combined into a global solution.

IconBlendshapes Blendshapes

Blends input geometry according to blendshape weights. Along with geometric blending the node also provides a real-time preview of texture blending.

Transform Transform

Adds a new transformation to a current transformation of an input geometry. Supports interactive transformation in the 3D-viewport.

Functionality

  • Fast Ray-Tracer

    Texture projection and geometry projection works much faster even for meshes with big triangles. Point selection works with small-scale models.

  • 35 Facial Blendshapes

    Wrap’s gallery now incudes 35 anatomically correct blendshapes. The blendshapes were captured from real person and then transered to a generic face. Thanks to Alexey Bodatirev for careful post-processing of each blendshape.

  • 6 Facial Scans

    A set of facial scans have been included into Wrap’s gallery.

Bug Fixes

  • LoadGeom node crashes when polygon indices refers to non-existing polygons.

  • Wrapping node crashes when plugging non-geometrical data into the first input.

  • Ray tracing fails for models in small scale. The problem arose for point and polygon selections, ProjectGeom node and TransferTexture node.

  • OBJ-files with polygroups exported from Houdini cause crash on loading.

  • In SelectPolygons node a 100K polygons limit is removed for loop selection. Now loop selection works for any meshes except for ones that contain only triangles.

  • RepairGeom node crashes when input geometry contains invalid polygons and doesn’t have texture coordinates.

Wrap 3.2.0

Released 5 December 2016

New Nodes

IconReplace Replace

Takes two models in the same topology and seamlessly replaces a part of one model with a part of the other.

IconSubset Subset

Detaches a selected part of a model to a separate geometry (a subset). The subset can further be modified, saved, loaded, wrapped or transformed. Any changes in vertex positions of the detached geometry can be later brought back to the original model using ApplySubset node.

IconApplySubset ApplySubset

Works in pair with a Subset node. Copies vertex positions of the subset back to original mesh. The topology and the vertex order of the subset geometry should not be modified.

Functionality

  • Command Line Interface

    Wrap can be run through a command line interface. Find more about command line arguments here.

  • Fullbody Basemesh

    The basemesh was designed specifically for wrapping purposes by Alexey Bogatyrev. It can be used for commercial purposes.

  • MTL Reference Preservation

    Wrap preserves reference to .mtl file when loading and saving model to OBJ-file.

  • Auto-compute is off by Default

    Auto-compute option of Wrapping node is off by default.

Bug Fixes

  • Wrap freezes if the basemesh contains isolated vertices.

  • Parameters of some node reset to default after removing them and undoing remove operation.

  • RepairGeom node does not remove isolated vertices if the input geometry is manifold and does not contain invalid polygons.

Wrap 3.1.0

Released 17 October 2016

New Nodes

IconSymmetry FixSymmetry

Converts a non-symmetrical model to a symmetrical one by changing its vertex coordinates. The input mesh is assumed to have a symmetrical topology.

Functionality

  • Camera to World Axis Alignment

    Click S key in a 3D-viewport to align camera rotation to the nearest world axes. Lets you quickly align the camera to Front, Left, Right, Top, Bottom and Back views.

Bug Fixes

  • SelectPointPairs: clicking on a model to set a point sometimes missed the proper polygon and set the point behind it.

  • Fit to View with LoadGeom node being selected caused to crash if there were no geometry loaded.

  • SubdivideGeom: the node didn’t preserve materials.

  • RigidAlignment: the node ignored transformation of the left input.

  • Clicking Tab or Delete while connecting nodes caused to crash.

  • Wheel zoom was reversed (comparing to Maya) in 3D-viewport.

Wrap 3.0.3

Released 5 September 2016

Functionality

  • Node-Graph Workflow

    Wrap 3 is the first step toward node-graph based scan processing. By creating and connecting nodes it allows you to define a recipe of how a scan should be processed and later apply the recipe to dozens of new scans.

  • Project saving

    Projects can now be saved to .wrap file. Internally the file has JSON text format. The structure of the file is simple enough so that one can easily edit node parameters, create and connect nodes using text editor or Python script. That provides access to basic automation.

  • Undo/Redo

    Undo/redo system allows undoing of most operations using Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y.

  • Enhanced Wrapping Algorithm

    The wrapping algorithm is much faster and much more robust now.

  • Viewports Synchronization

    When using SelectPointPairs node the left and right views can now be synchronized to speed up selection processing.

  • Enhanced Points Editor

    While working with SelectPointPairs node editor one can click and drag a point and adjust its position. Any point can be removed with Ctrl + LMB.

  • Enhanced Polygons Editor

    When working with SelectPolygons node editor the following new operations are supported:

    • double click selects a set of connected polygons

    • Shift + LMB or lasso selection adds new polygons to selection

    • Ctrl + LMB or lasso selection removes polygons from selection

    • Shift + double click near selected polygons will create a loop selection (only for manifold geometry)

    • +Polygroup/-Polygroup button adds/removes selection from polygroup

    • +Material/-Material button adds/removes selection from material

  • Node Graph Editor

    • Click Tab to show the list of all the nodes that can be created. To create the node choose one from the list or start typing its name and press Return when the desired node appears in look-up menu.

    • Click on an output then click on an input or vice-versa to connect two nodes.

    • Left-click on connection then Disconnect from context menu to disconnect nodes.

    • Hold down MMB over a node to see node information and errors.

    • Hold a mouse over a node input to see input name and type.

  • Batch Processing

    At the bottom of Wrap window there is a time line. Every loading node (like LoadGeom or LoadImage) allows to select a sequence of file names. When you switch between the frames of the time line the loading nodes will be recalculated to load new file from the list. Each saving node (like SaveGeom of SaveImage) allows to insert # sign inside an output file name. For example ‘WrappedBasemesh###.obj’. When you click ‘Compute current frame’ Wrap will substitute # signs with the current frame number producing ‘WrappedBasemesh001.obj’ In order to process multiple frames in batch mode create and connect the output of your recipe to saving node then click ‘Compute frame range’ inside the node editor. Each frame is computed in parallel in separate process. If you want to compute multiple saving nodes at a time please use main menu Nodes > Compute All.

Known Issues and Workarounds

  • Texture and Geometry projection

    Texture and geometry projection slows down significantly when target geometry contains some huge polygons that overlap big number of small polygons. Such models are often produced by RC. You can remove large polygons beforehand.

  • Small models

    Point selection and some other operations may suffer from loss of precision if a model has very small scale. The default units in Wrap are centimeters. You often face small-scale problem when trying to load scans that were saved in meters. Up-scaling the scan by changing ‘Scale’ parameter of LoadGeom node will take no effect. Up-scale the scan and save it in new units, then load saved file and use it.

  • Wrapping

    There’s no termination button for wrapping process yet.