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[rray]

Hi Rork,

it sounds like this would be possible with the random polygon filter followed by the "grow to island" command.
But you'd have use a lower value for "selection propability", like if you aim for 50% of the islands and you have 5 polygons per island, you'd have to use 0,1 (0,5/5)
Cheers,
Ray

[Rork]

Hi,

I'll try to install the addon and see what happens
It would be nice if I can select stuff with this method. Makes my trees a little less static.

cheers,

rob

[rray]

Cool let me know how it works, (btw using internal "Grow selection" a few times might be faster than the grow to islands command for a high number of islands.)

[druitre]

Ha, I was just doing the very same thing to see if it would work (random select/grow to island) while you two were here idly chitchatting
So, I can confirm it does indeed work and does what Rob wants.

Very nice toolset, Rray, thanks!

[Rork]

yup, does work just fine



me happy

P.S. I used the custom filters: "polygon sides","orientation vector" and "random vector". I quickly select one 'polygon leaf' for the max. derivation, and add the set to the selection. Very cool.

[Ramon]

Poorly that with new rcTools not work with Plugins that need Xpopmenu (OrenoXPOP)

[rray]

Thanks for the Follow-ups!

Ramon, what error message do you see? Couldn't reproduce it here. Double checked for conflicts with other XPOPs. Do you have a newer version of Junki's OrenoXPOPs than the one that's available here? That one uses an old version of XPOP (non python) which shouldn't be affected (theorertically....)

[Ramon]

Hi! Install OrenoXpop10.xsiaddon, I think it is last version
error in OrenoXPop.js in line
var iCmd = DisplayPop(LabelAll,Name,Color);
// ERROR : 2006-CUST-OrenoXPopA - Unexpected failure.
OrenoXPopA();

The same error with other plugin PF_Popup_v1.1
e=DisplayPop (cl_barra& cl_barra& cltxt_Full& c_barra& c_barra& ctxt_Full& d_barra& d_barra& dtxt& expr_barra& expr_barra& exprtxt_Full& Sc_barra& Sc_barra& Sctxt_Full& p_barra& p_barra& Ptxt_Full )

Installed Xpop2.0 but not help! This plugins work with RCtools 4.3
with rctools 4.5 this plugins will die?

[rray]

Ok I think I have an idea now what happened...

PF Popup and orenoXPOP were using the XPOP 2.0 popup plugin that's included with rctools 4.3

In rctools 4.5 this isn't included anymore (it has it's own popup) so by uninstalling rctools 4.3 those plugins stopped working. (It's not an incompatibiliy with 4.5)

Why they don't work when you installed XPOP 2.0 "standalone" can have two reasons:

Maybe it was the wrong version, it's split... (here for 32 bit, here for 64 bit).

Try reinstalling, this would work for Pablo's plugin.

To make the confusion complete, Junki's popup editor uses a version of XPOP2.0 that I don't have anymore (it uses 2 extra parameters for name/color of menu in the call, current one doesn't).
To make it work with XPOP 2.0, you would have to remove these two parameters in the line that produces the error (only for Junki's popup).

(or extract the only popup dll from rctools 4.3)

[Ramon]

Ok! Just copy old rcXPOP.64.dll from 4.3 version to new 4.5 - rcTools\Application\Plugins and it work!
Thanks a lot. rray!

[oz42]

Reinhard, thanks for the new version - downloading now...

Rob, I used a similar method with jellybeans a while ago (although I bet you could use ICE now!?), it worked a treat. RCtools really speeded things up!

[j3st3r]

Unfortunately when I try to use the RC45Popup command, it stops with an unexpected failure.

// ERROR : Object expected - [line 46 in C:\Users\Jester\Autodesk\Softimage_2012_SP1\Addons\rcTools\Application\Plugins\rcPopup45.js]
// ERROR : 2006-CUST-rc45Popup - Unexpected failure.
rc45Popup();

Can you help me?


Cheers


Szabolcs

[rray]

I suspect something with the Python installation. Do you have Python in the list of available scripting languages when opening a script editor?

[j3st3r]

runonce.bat made the python active again, and it works like charm.

[ActionArt]

I've had the same thing. The strange part is that it was working fine a couple weeks ago for me but now it's not. I'm not sure what I changed.

Hopefully rray will save us

[ActionArt]

Wow, that was faster than I could post! I'll try that. Thanks!!!