OpenMfx: An API for Cross-software Non-destructible Mesh Effects

Abstract

Figure 1: An example of sequence of non-destructive effects transforming a simple editable base mesh (e.g. a cube) into a more complex asset. Operations like bevel, extrusion or boolean intersection are available in most of common mesh-based 3D modeling suites, but the effect applied at the second step is less common. By implementing it as an OpenMfx plug-in, it is available in any supporting host software and thus the asset is interexchangable in its non-destructive form.