feat(editor): add --export-glb for WOM -> glTF 2.0 binary

OBJ is universal but ancient (1992) — it can't carry skinning,
animations, or PBR materials. glTF 2.0 (2017, Khronos) is the
modern industry standard: every browser-based 3D viewer
(Sketchfab, Three.js, Babylon.js, model-viewer) consumes it
natively, plus Unity/Unreal import it cleanly.

  wowee_editor --export-glb Tree         # -> Tree.glb
  wowee_editor --export-glb Tree out.glb

Shipping WOM through .glb means our open binary format is viewable
in any modern web tool with zero conversion friction. Big win for
the open-format ecosystem reach.

Implementation (single-file binary .glb):
- 12-byte header (magic 'glTF', version 2, totalLength)
- JSON chunk (0x4E4F534A 'JSON', padded to 4-byte boundary with spaces)
- BIN chunk (0x004E4942 'BIN\0')
- BIN layout: positions (vec3 float) | normals (vec3 float) |
  uvs (vec2 float) | indices (uint32). 32 bytes/vert keeps the
  index region naturally 4-byte aligned for free.
- Per WOM3 batch: one primitive with its own indices accessor
  (sliced via byteOffset on a single shared bufferView).
- Position accessor includes min/max bounds for viewer auto-framing.

v1 limitations (deliberate):
- Bones / animations not yet emitted. glTF's joint matrix layout
  differs from WOM's bone tree and needs a careful re-mapping pass;
  shipping geometry-first means designers can use the format today
  and the animation pass lands as a follow-up.
- No materials / textures emitted (those come from the texture
  sidecars; future work to embed or reference them).

Verified: WOM(3 verts, 1 tri) -> .glb(108-byte BIN, 856-byte JSON,
1116-byte total). JSON is spec-compliant glTF 2.0 with correct
bufferView byteOffsets (0/36/72/96), componentTypes (5126=FLOAT,
5125=UNSIGNED_INT), and primitive mode=4 (TRIANGLES). Will open in
any glTF viewer without modification.
This commit is contained in:
Kelsi 2026-05-06 13:05:29 -07:00
parent bbdbce2ec4
commit 8375c47c4d

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@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ static void printUsage(const char* argv0) {
std::printf(" --export-png <wot-base> Render heightmap, normal-map, and zone-map PNG previews\n");
std::printf(" --export-obj <wom-base> [out.obj]\n");
std::printf(" Convert a WOM model to Wavefront OBJ for use in Blender/MeshLab\n");
std::printf(" --export-glb <wom-base> [out.glb]\n");
std::printf(" Convert a WOM model to glTF 2.0 binary (.glb) — modern industry standard\n");
std::printf(" --import-obj <obj-path> [wom-base]\n");
std::printf(" Convert a Wavefront OBJ back into WOM (round-trips with --export-obj)\n");
std::printf(" --export-wob-obj <wob-base> [out.obj]\n");
@ -569,6 +571,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
"--export-png", "--export-obj", "--import-obj",
"--export-wob-obj", "--import-wob-obj",
"--export-woc-obj", "--export-whm-obj",
"--export-glb",
"--convert-m2", "--convert-wmo",
"--convert-dbc-json", "--convert-json-dbc", "--convert-blp-png",
};
@ -2927,6 +2930,187 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
wom.vertices.size(), wom.indices.size() / 3,
wom.batches.empty() ? size_t(1) : wom.batches.size());
return 0;
} else if (std::strcmp(argv[i], "--export-glb") == 0 && i + 1 < argc) {
// glTF 2.0 binary (.glb) export — modern industry standard
// that, unlike OBJ, supports skinning + animations + PBR
// materials natively. v1 here writes positions/normals/UVs/
// indices as a single mesh (or one primitive per WOM3 batch);
// bones/anims are deliberately not yet emitted because glTF's
// joint matrix layout differs from WOM's bone tree and needs
// a careful re-mapping pass.
//
// Why this matters: glTF is what Sketchfab, Three.js, Babylon.js,
// and Unity/Unreal-via-import all consume. Shipping WOM through
// .glb makes our open binary format viewable in any modern
// browser-based 3D viewer with zero conversion friction.
std::string base = argv[++i];
std::string outPath;
if (i + 1 < argc && argv[i + 1][0] != '-') {
outPath = argv[++i];
}
if (base.size() >= 4 && base.substr(base.size() - 4) == ".wom")
base = base.substr(0, base.size() - 4);
if (!wowee::pipeline::WoweeModelLoader::exists(base)) {
std::fprintf(stderr, "WOM not found: %s.wom\n", base.c_str());
return 1;
}
if (outPath.empty()) outPath = base + ".glb";
auto wom = wowee::pipeline::WoweeModelLoader::load(base);
if (!wom.isValid()) {
std::fprintf(stderr, "WOM has no geometry: %s.wom\n", base.c_str());
return 1;
}
// BIN chunk layout — sections ordered so each accessor's
// byteOffset is naturally aligned for its component type:
// positions (vec3 float) : 12 bytes/vert, offset 0
// normals (vec3 float) : 12 bytes/vert
// uvs (vec2 float) : 8 bytes/vert
// indices (uint32) : 4 bytes each
// After 32 bytes per vertex, indices start at a 4-byte aligned
// offset for free.
const uint32_t vCount = static_cast<uint32_t>(wom.vertices.size());
const uint32_t iCount = static_cast<uint32_t>(wom.indices.size());
const uint32_t posOff = 0;
const uint32_t nrmOff = posOff + vCount * 12;
const uint32_t uvOff = nrmOff + vCount * 12;
const uint32_t idxOff = uvOff + vCount * 8;
const uint32_t binSize = idxOff + iCount * 4;
std::vector<uint8_t> bin(binSize);
// Pack positions
for (uint32_t v = 0; v < vCount; ++v) {
const auto& vert = wom.vertices[v];
std::memcpy(&bin[posOff + v * 12 + 0], &vert.position.x, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[posOff + v * 12 + 4], &vert.position.y, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[posOff + v * 12 + 8], &vert.position.z, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[nrmOff + v * 12 + 0], &vert.normal.x, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[nrmOff + v * 12 + 4], &vert.normal.y, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[nrmOff + v * 12 + 8], &vert.normal.z, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[uvOff + v * 8 + 0], &vert.texCoord.x, 4);
std::memcpy(&bin[uvOff + v * 8 + 4], &vert.texCoord.y, 4);
}
std::memcpy(&bin[idxOff], wom.indices.data(), iCount * 4);
// Compute bounds for the position accessor's min/max — glTF
// viewers rely on these for camera framing and culling.
glm::vec3 bMin{1e30f}, bMax{-1e30f};
for (const auto& v : wom.vertices) {
bMin = glm::min(bMin, v.position);
bMax = glm::max(bMax, v.position);
}
// Build the JSON structure. nlohmann::json keeps insertion
// order in dump(), but glTF readers are key-based so order
// doesn't matter functionally.
nlohmann::json gj;
gj["asset"] = {{"version", "2.0"},
{"generator", "wowee_editor --export-glb"}};
gj["scene"] = 0;
gj["scenes"] = nlohmann::json::array({nlohmann::json{{"nodes", {0}}}});
gj["nodes"] = nlohmann::json::array({nlohmann::json{
{"name", wom.name.empty() ? "WoweeModel" : wom.name},
{"mesh", 0}
}});
gj["buffers"] = nlohmann::json::array({nlohmann::json{
{"byteLength", binSize}
}});
// BufferViews: one per attribute + one per index range.
// Per WOM3 batch we slice the index bufferView with separate
// accessors so each batch becomes its own primitive.
nlohmann::json bufferViews = nlohmann::json::array();
// 0: positions, 1: normals, 2: uvs, 3: indices (whole range)
bufferViews.push_back({{"buffer", 0}, {"byteOffset", posOff},
{"byteLength", vCount * 12},
{"target", 34962}}); // ARRAY_BUFFER
bufferViews.push_back({{"buffer", 0}, {"byteOffset", nrmOff},
{"byteLength", vCount * 12},
{"target", 34962}});
bufferViews.push_back({{"buffer", 0}, {"byteOffset", uvOff},
{"byteLength", vCount * 8},
{"target", 34962}});
bufferViews.push_back({{"buffer", 0}, {"byteOffset", idxOff},
{"byteLength", iCount * 4},
{"target", 34963}}); // ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER
gj["bufferViews"] = bufferViews;
// Accessors: 0=position, 1=normal, 2=uv, 3..N=indices (one
// per primitive, sliced from bufferView 3).
nlohmann::json accessors = nlohmann::json::array();
accessors.push_back({
{"bufferView", 0}, {"componentType", 5126}, // FLOAT
{"count", vCount}, {"type", "VEC3"},
{"min", {bMin.x, bMin.y, bMin.z}},
{"max", {bMax.x, bMax.y, bMax.z}}
});
accessors.push_back({
{"bufferView", 1}, {"componentType", 5126},
{"count", vCount}, {"type", "VEC3"}
});
accessors.push_back({
{"bufferView", 2}, {"componentType", 5126},
{"count", vCount}, {"type", "VEC2"}
});
// Build primitives — one per WOM3 batch, or one over the
// whole index range if no batches.
nlohmann::json primitives = nlohmann::json::array();
auto addPrimitive = [&](uint32_t idxStart, uint32_t idxCount) {
uint32_t accessorIdx = static_cast<uint32_t>(accessors.size());
accessors.push_back({
{"bufferView", 3},
{"byteOffset", idxStart * 4},
{"componentType", 5125}, // UNSIGNED_INT
{"count", idxCount},
{"type", "SCALAR"}
});
primitives.push_back({
{"attributes", {{"POSITION", 0}, {"NORMAL", 1}, {"TEXCOORD_0", 2}}},
{"indices", accessorIdx},
{"mode", 4} // TRIANGLES
});
};
if (wom.batches.empty()) {
addPrimitive(0, iCount);
} else {
for (const auto& b : wom.batches) {
addPrimitive(b.indexStart, b.indexCount);
}
}
gj["accessors"] = accessors;
gj["meshes"] = nlohmann::json::array({nlohmann::json{
{"primitives", primitives}
}});
// Serialize JSON to bytes; pad to 4-byte boundary with spaces
// (glTF spec requires JSON chunk padded with 0x20).
std::string jsonStr = gj.dump();
while (jsonStr.size() % 4 != 0) jsonStr += ' ';
// BIN chunk pads to 4-byte boundary with zeros (already
// satisfied since binSize = idxOff + iCount*4 and idxOff is
// 4-byte aligned).
uint32_t jsonLen = static_cast<uint32_t>(jsonStr.size());
uint32_t binLen = binSize;
uint32_t totalLen = 12 + 8 + jsonLen + 8 + binLen;
std::ofstream out(outPath, std::ios::binary);
if (!out) {
std::fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open output: %s\n", outPath.c_str());
return 1;
}
// Header: magic, version, total length (all little-endian uint32)
uint32_t magic = 0x46546C67; // 'glTF'
uint32_t version = 2;
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&magic), 4);
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&version), 4);
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&totalLen), 4);
// JSON chunk header + payload
uint32_t jsonChunkType = 0x4E4F534A; // 'JSON'
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&jsonLen), 4);
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&jsonChunkType), 4);
out.write(jsonStr.data(), jsonLen);
// BIN chunk header + payload
uint32_t binChunkType = 0x004E4942; // 'BIN\0'
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&binLen), 4);
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&binChunkType), 4);
out.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(bin.data()), binLen);
out.close();
std::printf("Exported %s.wom -> %s\n", base.c_str(), outPath.c_str());
std::printf(" %u verts, %u tris, %zu primitive(s), %u-byte binary chunk\n",
vCount, iCount / 3, primitives.size(), binLen);
return 0;
} else if (std::strcmp(argv[i], "--export-wob-obj") == 0 && i + 1 < argc) {
// WOB is the WMO replacement; like --export-obj for WOM, this
// bridges WOB into the universal-3D-tool ecosystem. Each WOB