Creates a sphere MeshResource with a specified number of latitude and longitude bands (for lower poly sphere)

MeshResource+generateSpecificSphere.swift

extension MeshResource {
    static func generateSpecificSphere(radius: Float, latitudeBands: Int = 10, longitudeBands: Int = 10) throws -> MeshResource {
        let vertexCount = (latitudeBands + 1) * (longitudeBands + 1)
        let indexCount = latitudeBands * longitudeBands * 6
        
        var desc = MyVertex.descriptor
        desc.vertexCapacity = vertexCount
        desc.indexCapacity = indexCount
        
        let mesh = try LowLevelMesh(descriptor: desc)
        
        mesh.withUnsafeMutableBytes(bufferIndex: 0) { rawBytes in
            let vertices = rawBytes.bindMemory(to: MyVertex.self)
            var vertexIndex = 0
            
            for latNumber in 0...latitudeBands {
                let theta = Float(latNumber) * Float.pi / Float(latitudeBands)
                let sinTheta = sin(theta)
                let cosTheta = cos(theta)
                
                for longNumber in 0...longitudeBands {
                    let phi = Float(longNumber) * 2 * Float.pi / Float(longitudeBands)
                    let sinPhi = sin(phi)
                    let cosPhi = cos(phi)
                    
                    let x = cosPhi * sinTheta
                    let y = cosTheta
                    let z = sinPhi * sinTheta
                    let position = SIMD3<Float>(x, y, z) * radius
                    let color = 0xFFFFFFFF
                    vertices[vertexIndex] = MyVertex(position: position, color: UInt32(color))
                    vertexIndex += 1
                }
            }
        }
        
        mesh.withUnsafeMutableIndices { rawIndices in
            let indices = rawIndices.bindMemory(to: UInt32.self)
            var index = 0
            
            for latNumber in 0..<latitudeBands {
                for longNumber in 0..<longitudeBands {
                    let first = (latNumber * (longitudeBands + 1)) + longNumber
                    let second = first + longitudeBands + 1
                    
                    indices[index] = UInt32(first)
                    indices[index + 1] = UInt32(second)
                    indices[index + 2] = UInt32(first + 1)
                    
                    indices[index + 3] = UInt32(second)
                    indices[index + 4] = UInt32(second + 1)
                    indices[index + 5] = UInt32(first + 1)
                    
                    index += 6
                }
            }
        }
        
        let meshBounds = BoundingBox(min: [-radius, -radius, -radius], max: [radius, radius, radius])
        mesh.parts.replaceAll([
            LowLevelMesh.Part(
                indexCount: indexCount,
                topology: .triangle,
                bounds: meshBounds
            )
        ])
        
        // Print the number of triangles
        let triangleCount = indexCount / 3
        print("Number of triangles: \(triangleCount)")
        
        return try MeshResource(from: mesh)
    }
}

struct MyVertex {
    var position: SIMD3<Float> = .zero
    var color: UInt32 = .zero
    
    static var vertexAttributes: [LowLevelMesh.Attribute] = [
        .init(semantic: .position, format: .float3, offset: MemoryLayout<Self>.offset(of: \.position)!),
        .init(semantic: .color, format: .uchar4Normalized_bgra, offset: MemoryLayout<Self>.offset(of: \.color)!)
    ]


    static var vertexLayouts: [LowLevelMesh.Layout] = [
        .init(bufferIndex: 0, bufferStride: MemoryLayout<Self>.stride)
    ]


    static var descriptor: LowLevelMesh.Descriptor {
        var desc = LowLevelMesh.Descriptor()
        desc.vertexAttributes = MyVertex.vertexAttributes
        desc.vertexLayouts = MyVertex.vertexLayouts
        desc.indexType = .uint32
        return desc
    }
}