How To Compile
How To Compile and Build
Projects are configurated with CMake scripts to run from Src folder. The target MotionBuilder version is defined in the src/PRODUCT_VERSION.txt
From a given version in the file, MotionBuilder SDK default path is C:/Program Files/Autodesk/MotionBuilder ${productversion}/OpenRealitySDK
By default binaries will be copied into MotionBuilder/bin/x64/plugins folder
MotionBuilder 2025 is using Qt 6.5.3 and that will be needed to build some of the plugins.
Third party libraries
Third party directory contains dependency libraries
You also have to locate glew library include and lib directories
For PostProcess plugin uses freetype2 and freetype-gl in order to render a text. You have to locate these libraries. Pre-compiled libraries could be found in the project folder.
GPU Particles are using nvFX library
How to compile Old Notes
Note! Some old Projects and MoBu solution are created in VisualStudio 2010, the latest projects I've developed in VS 2015.
Specify env variables with the path to your motionbuilder folder
ADSK_MOBU_{version number}_64, for example ADSK_MOBU_2017_64
NOTE: If during the compilation you have error "Macro definition of snprintf conflicts with Standard Library function declaration". The way out for the issue is to comment the line of declaration snprintf in kaydara.h
In order to render HUD text on top of post processed screen image, there is a setting "Draw HUD Layer" in the post process object. And the plugin have to be compiled with HUD_FONT definition and with depencies of freetype2 and freetype-gl:
freetype2 - https://github.com/aseprite/freetype2
freetype-gl - https://github.com/frachop/freetypegl
After compiling release version of the plugin, there is a post build commandline to copy file into the output folder.
copy "$(ADSK_MOBU_2011_64)\bin$(Platform)\plugins$(ProjectName).dll" "..\bin_2011$(Platform)\plugins$(ProjectName).dll"
I'm using one MotionCodeLibrary for compiling all the projects. In each project I have added a relative path to that folder. Right now this library is a colletion of header and source files, it's not a static or dynamic library. You should not only include needed headers but also add corresponding source code files to your project.
Compiling older plugins
There is a snprintf redifinition issue when compiling for older MoBu SDKs with VS2017+, to solve that you could just comment the line #define snprintf _snprintf in kaydara.h in the OpenRealitySDK/include
On my machine I have put 32 bits version of MoBu into the 64 bits folders. They share the same files except folders bin/win32 and bin/x64.
For supporting older version of MoBu in different projects I'm using these pre-defines
OLD_FBEVALUATE_LOCALTIME - MoBu 2010 doesn't support recieving system and local time from the evaluation variable FBEvaluateInfo
OLD_FBTIME_SETFRAME - in old SetFrame function (MoBu 2010) you need to specify a bool parameter as an argument
OLD_FBTIME_GETFRAME
OLD_SCENE_EVENTS - There some new events in new version of MoBu like attach/detach component from FBScene
OLD_FBTREE - in old tree control you don't have several function to work with a checkboxes
OLD_FBAPP_FILERENDER
OLD_FIND_MODEL_BY_NAME - in old MoBu version we have different function name to get objects by name. Old version FBFindModelsByName, new version - FBFindModelByLabelName
OLD_DOCK_POSITION
OLD_OPENGL_HEADER - starting from MoBu 2011 we need to specify fbsdk-opengl header separately
OLD_FBMATH
OLD_CONSTRAINT_MANAGER
You should know that each dll plugin project has a resource with a version information.
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