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Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 16 Nov 2009, 21:03
by nassosy
Squizmek wrote:hey nassosy,
do you think it would be possible to take a group of instancing meshes instead of a single mesh that gets duplicated? This would be really awesome to get an exact copy of the pointcloud as geometry!
I don't understand the question. :-\

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 17 Nov 2009, 01:07
by Squizmek
nassosy wrote:
Squizmek wrote:hey nassosy,
do you think it would be possible to take a group of instancing meshes instead of a single mesh that gets duplicated? This would be really awesome to get an exact copy of the pointcloud as geometry!
I don't understand the question. :-\
Let me show you with a screenshot...
What I mean is: instead of using a single mesh as instancing shape, you can use a group and randomly pick the meshes for instancing. The problem is that with your plugin I can only select the cube, sphere or cylinder to create a polymesh, but not the whole group.

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 17 Nov 2009, 01:22
by nassosy
Squizmek wrote: Let me show you with a screenshot...
What I mean is: instead of using a single mesh as instancing shape, you can use a group and randomly pick the meshes for instancing. The problem is that with your plugin I can only select the cube, sphere or cylinder to create a polymesh, but not the whole group.
First of all the plugin doesn't instance, it duplicates (makes extra copies independent of the original)
and it operates on a single PolyMesh at a time.

if you want random instancing of groups, ICE already has this functionality built-in

The source code is included with the plugin,
it can certainly be done if you have time on your hands
which i don't at the moment.

if you want to modify it, be my guest

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 17 Nov 2009, 08:35
by Letterbox
Thank you again nassosy

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 17 Nov 2009, 14:31
by Squizmek
nassosy wrote: First of all the plugin doesn't instance, it duplicates (makes extra copies independent of the original)
and it operates on a single PolyMesh at a time.

if you want random instancing of groups, ICE already has this functionality built-in
...
Yes, ICE makes instances, and your plugin makes duplicates. If I wanted instances I wouldn't have posted here.

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.1

Posted: 01 Dec 2009, 20:48
by Squizmek
I just wrote a tutorial that also makes use of this plugin.

http://feathertools.michael-buettner.co ... cloth.html

edit: I "tagged" your link (inbetween URL-Tags) - why? look here - HB

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 08:36
by satyajit
Hi nassosy,

I was trying your wondeful plugin. One question. Is there any way to copy UV data while using the plugin to duplicate. Has anybody else tried this?

Thanks

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 12:55
by nassosy
Duplicate,
use GATOR to transfer attributes,
optionally freeze the operator stack.
then move the duplicates

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 16:27
by satyajit
Thanks again,

But gator is not working in this case.

Supposedly, I pick a UV mapped torus and a pointcloud and applied polymeshduplicator for pointcloud. Now, the torus is duplicated following the srt of pointcloud. Then I applied GATOR to the duplicated polymesh and tried to transfer UV data from the master torus. But it's not getting through as it should. I mean the UV data from the master torus to the each of the torus duplicates.

Am I doing something wrong?

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 16:40
by satyajit
Tried drag and dropping the projection. Still no luck!

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 17:07
by nassosy
In the "..._Copies" object that contains the duplicates
drag the ICE tree in the Animation section
and temporarily disable it
now all the duplicates will be at the same SRT
apply the GATOR in the Modeling section (above the duplicate op)
and optionally freeze
then re-enable the ICE tree

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 15 Feb 2010, 17:37
by satyajit
That worked wonderfully! Thanks a ton man!

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 04 May 2010, 14:54
by rasskass
Hi,

Great addon! Im still a beginner in Softimage and especially ICE but have a question for the addon. In houdini I used the copy sop alot to create facade studies (i'm an architect) with variations within the components. I have tow questions that the addon might are able to help me with:

1. How do i create a pointcloud from a object where the points are at the centerpoint of each face?

2. How do i duplicate a new component onto the pointcloud using the facenormal to allign the duplicates to the surfaces curvature?

Have attached a simple description picture

Is this possible and if so how? Hope someone are able to help. trying to convince my office that ICE is just as capable as Houdini for designing parametric facades for our projects.

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 05 May 2010, 02:58
by dwigfor
This might be more for what you are interested in. http://www.vimeo.com/5785239

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 13 Aug 2010, 18:03
by chris3d
if you have high pointcounts you´ll get some rounding errors and the mesh will screw up slightly.
to avoid that you could change the init copyID.
before you do the divide you should multiply both inputs by a very high value ( eg 1mio, depends on you polycount)
do the divide in scalar and round it afterwards ...

Re: PolyMesh Duplicator v1.2.1

Posted: 28 Jan 2011, 11:02
by Helli
First of all, thank you for the plugin.

Sadly Helges mt_ice instancer is not working anymore so I used your plugin which is doing almost the same.

Worked nicley in Softimage 2011 SP1, only one feature is heavily missing. Is it possible to copy the texture supports from the ice instances to the generated mesh ?

Edit:
For now I wrote a script to create a texture projection for every polyong island. At least for my case thats enough.