gamelib/test/src/AssetBuilder.cake

;;
;; Assets
;;

;; TODO Improvements:
;; - Check blender command for changes to cause rebuild
;; - Check linked Blender files (would need to hard code because blender is too slow to start)
;; - Don't rebuild due to different build configuration (assets remain unchanged)
;; - Actually check assets instead of just cache file
(defun-comptime process-3d-assets (manager (& ModuleManager) module (* Module) &return bool)
  (scope ;; Models/meshes
   ;; Make sure output dir exists and we have an absolute path to it
   (var model-assets ([] (* (const char))) (array "Monkey" "MaterialSphere"))
   (var model-relative-dir (* (const char)) "data/Models")

   (makeDirectory model-relative-dir)
   ;; Output must be absolute or OgreMeshTool will fail (probably due to different working dir)
   (var model-output-dir (* (const char)) (makeAbsolutePath_Allocated null model-relative-dir))
   (unless model-output-dir
     (Logf "Asset-Building: could not make directory %s absolute\n" model-relative-dir)
     (return false))

   (var i int 0)
   (while (< i (array-size model-assets))
     (var blend-asset ([] MAX_PATH_LENGTH char) (array 0))
     (PrintfBuffer blend-asset "assets/%s.blend" (at i model-assets))

     ;; It is too slow to check Blender for all the files the blend will export, then check whether
     ;; the .blend file is more recently modified. Instead, create a file in the cache to represent
     ;; the last time the .blend was known to have been exported. Hack, especially because other
     ;; configurations don't need to rebuild assets. Probably better to just leave asset building to
     ;; another executable
     (var cache-reference-filename ([] MAX_PATH_LENGTH char) (array 0))
     (unless (outputFilenameFromSourceFilename (call-on c_str (field manager buildOutputDir))
                                               blend-asset
                                               "txt" ;; Add to end of file for type
                                               cache-reference-filename (sizeof cache-reference-filename))
       (free (type-cast model-output-dir (* void)))
       (return false))
     (unless (fileIsMoreRecentlyModified blend-asset cache-reference-filename)
       (incr i)
       (continue))

     (run-process-sequential-or
      ("blender"
       "--background" blend-asset
       "--python-exit-code" "1" ;; If there's a python exception, return 1
       "--python" "../tools/BlenderToOgre.py"
       "--" model-output-dir)
      (Log "Asset-Building: failed to build 3D asset. Is Blender on your path? Is blender2ogre set
 up on your Blender default preferences? See https://github.com/OGRECave/blender2ogre for setup\n
You may need to copy blender2ogre to your new blender version, e.g.:\n\n
cp -r Dependencies/blender2ogre/io_ogre ~/.config/blender/[version]/scripts/addons/\n\n
Or, open your new version of Blender and select 'Copy settings from [previous version]'\n
on the splash screen. Don't forget to set Ogre XML converter to OgreMeshTool\n")
      (free (type-cast model-output-dir (* void)))
      (return false))

     (scope ;; Write reference file
      (var cache-reference (* FILE) (fopen cache-reference-filename "w"))
      (unless cache-reference
        (Logf "Asset-Building: failed to open cache reference file %s\n" cache-reference-filename)
        (free (type-cast model-output-dir (* void)))
        (return false))
      (fprintf cache-reference "%s exported\n" blend-asset)
      (fclose cache-reference))
     (incr i))

   (free (type-cast model-output-dir (* void))))

  (scope ;; Textures
   (var texture-assets ([] (* (const char))) (array "Monkey_Texture"))
   (var texture-process-results (<> std::vector int))
   (call-on resize texture-process-results (array-size texture-assets))
   (var max-num-processes int 4)
   (var num-processes-running int 0)
   (var i int 0)
   (while (< i (array-size texture-assets))
     (var texture-asset ([] MAX_PATH_LENGTH char) (array 0))
     (PrintfBuffer texture-asset "assets/%s.png" (at i texture-assets))
     (var texture-converted ([] MAX_PATH_LENGTH char) (array 0))
     (PrintfBuffer texture-converted "data/Materials/Textures/%s.dds" (at i texture-assets))

     (unless (fileIsMoreRecentlyModified texture-asset texture-converted)
       (incr i)
       (continue))

     ;; Don't spin up too many processes
     (when (>= num-processes-running max-num-processes)
       (Log "wait for processes\n")
       (waitForAllProcessesClosed null)
       (set num-processes-running 0))

     (set (at i texture-process-results) -1)
     (run-process-start-or (addr (at i texture-process-results))
                           ("convert" texture-asset texture-converted)
                           (Log "Asset-Building: failed to convert 2D texture. Is 'convert' on your
path? You may need to install ImageMagick. See https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php\n")
                           (return false))
     (incr num-processes-running)
     (incr i))

   (waitForAllProcessesClosed null)
   (for-in result int texture-process-results
           (unless (= 0 result)
             (Log "Asset-Building: failed to convert texture\n")
             (return false))))

  (return true))

;; TODO: This should be a post-build hook
(add-compile-time-hook-module pre-build process-3d-assets :priority-decrease 10)

(add-dependency-git-submodule clone-blender2ogre "https://github.com/OGRECave/blender2ogre"
                              "Dependencies/blender2ogre")