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I am releasing two plugins for Moray 3.5.
Domer Plugin (With RanDome) for Moray 3.5 pushes your polyhedron palette,
delegating the difficulties of digital dome design to the desktop.
Triangulation and tessellation of the 5 platonic solids, cube tetrahedron,
octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron, gives you a a plethora of
polytopes to play with at your next polygon party. Well, it beats watching
the tube. Also included are icosidodecahedron and octahexacube.
"RanDome" Plugin. This random hull creation tool helps you to model
natural-looking objects, such as rocks, potatoes, pine cones, flowers,
nuts, seeds, etc. Although it deserves a title of its own, I have included
it inside the above Domer plugin.
Technical note: Domer objects will not render in the PoV raytracer until
you convert them to mesh from the Edit menu. This may change in a future
release.
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TMI Plugin (Triangle Mesh Importer, Now With VRML Export). This plugin for
Moray 3.5 sews together up to 1,000 individual triangles into one
contiguous mesh. We all know there is nothing worse on your first internet
date than looking down and realizing your avatar's mesh has decomposed into
triangles, ..right? The extra vertices and edges lead to limp browser
performance, not to mention hair loss. Well, use this mesh enhancement
add-on to sew them back together into a more rigid and durable structure!
Also handy for importing raw triangle collections from programs, such as
AutoCad .DXF, .PoVRay .POV or .INC (might work with others).
VRML Exporter (Included in the TMI plugin, above). This tool exports a mesh
of triangles or quads to .WRL (VRML97 Indexed Face Set), so you can use
Moray's superior interface for online 3D content creation. The VRML export
does not support primitives. I saw no need for this, since Moray can
easily convert primitives to mesh, prior to export. Mesh objects render
faster in VRML anyway. And, finally, primitives aren't known for their
social behavior. They could, for example, decide to render differently
than expected.
I have attached the domer plugin. The TMI plugin is available on my
website, www.thenerdshow.com
Enjoy!
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Attachments:
Download 'domer.zip' (336 KB)
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"The Nerd Show" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht
news:web.42c47ffbbf390932a797a0a60@news.povray.org...
> I am releasing two plugins for Moray 3.5.
>
Thanks for the good work!
>
> I have attached the domer plugin. The TMI plugin is available on my
> website, www.thenerdshow.com
>
I have tried Domer. I am less interested in TMI, so, for the time being, I
left it aside.
Domer works fine. One little bug only: the word 'Scale' appears at the top
right while it should be above the appropriate toggles lower down.
Changing the platonic forms does not immediately changes the object on
screen, but only after toggling one of the other buttons. That is annoying
because one wants to see the different forms right away and only afterwards
change the settings.
In fact, I wonder if the name is appropriate as the object created is not
strictly a 'dome' (like the dome plugin by Philippe Gibone, which I
recommend). A (terrible!) name could be 'PlatoBuilder' :-) oh,
well....
Thomas
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Great, but why do you call it "Dome"?
What's in the futur version?
A great interest for TMI, but i can't download it?
Friendly
Sylvain
news:web.42c47ffbbf390932a797a0a60@news.povray.org...
> I am releasing two plugins for Moray 3.5.
>
> Domer Plugin (With RanDome) for Moray 3.5 pushes your polyhedron palette,
> delegating the difficulties of digital dome design to the desktop.
> Triangulation and tessellation of the 5 platonic solids, cube
tetrahedron,
> octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron, gives you a a plethora of
> polytopes to play with at your next polygon party. Well, it beats
watching
> the tube. Also included are icosidodecahedron and octahexacube.
>
> "RanDome" Plugin. This random hull creation tool helps you to model
> natural-looking objects, such as rocks, potatoes, pine cones, flowers,
> nuts, seeds, etc. Although it deserves a title of its own, I have
included
> it inside the above Domer plugin.
>
> Technical note: Domer objects will not render in the PoV raytracer until
> you convert them to mesh from the Edit menu. This may change in a future
> release.
>
> ===================
>
> TMI Plugin (Triangle Mesh Importer, Now With VRML Export). This plugin
for
> Moray 3.5 sews together up to 1,000 individual triangles into one
> contiguous mesh. We all know there is nothing worse on your first
internet
> date than looking down and realizing your avatar's mesh has decomposed
into
> triangles, ..right? The extra vertices and edges lead to limp browser
> performance, not to mention hair loss. Well, use this mesh enhancement
> add-on to sew them back together into a more rigid and durable structure!
> Also handy for importing raw triangle collections from programs, such as
> AutoCad .DXF, .PoVRay .POV or .INC (might work with others).
>
> VRML Exporter (Included in the TMI plugin, above). This tool exports a
mesh
> of triangles or quads to .WRL (VRML97 Indexed Face Set), so you can use
> Moray's superior interface for online 3D content creation. The VRML
export
> does not support primitives. I saw no need for this, since Moray can
> easily convert primitives to mesh, prior to export. Mesh objects render
> faster in VRML anyway. And, finally, primitives aren't known for their
> social behavior. They could, for example, decide to render differently
> than expected.
>
> I have attached the domer plugin. The TMI plugin is available on my
> website, www.thenerdshow.com
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
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New improved versions of both plugins are out now. Many of the problems are
fixed. I went ahead and converted everything to use spinners, since that's
all anyone can seem to figure out. I went a step further and had the
spinner update the text label. Seems to work fine.
Henry
www.thenerdshow.com
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Hurrah! Henry the TMI plugin works fine. I imported the cow. Its
perfect!!!!!!!!!!!
One thousend mercis.
42cd5a64$1@news.povray.org...
> New improved versions of both plugins are out now. Many of the problems
> are fixed. I went ahead and converted everything to use spinners, since
> that's all anyone can seem to figure out. I went a step further and had
> the spinner update the text label. Seems to work fine.
>
> Henry
>
> www.thenerdshow.com
>
>
>
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"Henry" <use_the_feedback_form@site> schreef in bericht
news:42cd5a64$1@news.povray.org...
> New improved versions of both plugins are out now. Many of the problems
are
> fixed. I went ahead and converted everything to use spinners, since
that's
> all anyone can seem to figure out. I went a step further and had the
> spinner update the text label. Seems to work fine.
>
Excellent, Henry! ...and almost perfect!
What I would like now, are the platonic objects to be oriented *correctly*
in their most basic shape, i.e. with subdivision 0. So, the octahedron would
be balanced on its point, the cube and tetrahedron on one of their faces,
etc. like in the example small images.
Would that be possible?
Thomas
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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] inter nlnet> wrote in message
news:42cf7c4b@news.povray.org...
>
> "Henry" <use_the_feedback_form@site> schreef in bericht
> news:42cd5a64$1@news.povray.org...
>> New improved versions of both plugins are out now. Many of the problems
> are
>> fixed. I went ahead and converted everything to use spinners, since
> that's
>> all anyone can seem to figure out. I went a step further and had the
>> spinner update the text label. Seems to work fine.
>>
>
> Excellent, Henry! ...and almost perfect!
> What I would like now, are the platonic objects to be oriented *correctly*
> in their most basic shape, i.e. with subdivision 0. So, the octahedron
> would
> be balanced on its point, the cube and tetrahedron on one of their faces,
> etc. like in the example small images.
> Would that be possible?
>
> Thomas
>
Very possible. It looks like the tetrahedron and icosahedron are the only
ones that are on edge. I suppose the tetrahedron should rest on a face and
the icosahedron should balance on a point. I would just need to re-orient
the coordinates. Luckily, this is easy to do because Moray can convert the
object to mesh in any orientation.
I'm actually toying with yet another idea... The shapes use the mesh2
format, which fits nicely into UDO. What I am thinking is allowing for the
tessellation of a UDO object. The only problem with that idea is Moray will
crash when I exceed the size of the vertex array. Thus I would need to
re-declare the arrays as dynamic. Also, there is the the potential problem
of people supplying incompatible shapes. I don't even want to know what
would happen if somebody tried to tessellate chess.udo.
Henry
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Hi Henry, you recently wrote in moray.binaries:
> I'm actually toying with yet another idea... The shapes use the mesh2
> format, which fits nicely into UDO.
I would suggest avoiding UDO if at all possible. If you are using the
SDK, use the functions that create a mesh object instead, since that
maps perfectly to mesh2. If you need an example of how to create a
mesh2, let me know.
- Lutz
email : lut### [at] stmuccom
Web : http://www.stmuc.com/moray
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"Lutz Kretzschmar" <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote in message
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> Hi Henry, you recently wrote in moray.binaries:
>
>> I'm actually toying with yet another idea... The shapes use the mesh2
>> format, which fits nicely into UDO.
> I would suggest avoiding UDO if at all possible. If you are using the
> SDK, use the functions that create a mesh object instead, since that
> maps perfectly to mesh2. If you need an example of how to create a
> mesh2, let me know.
>
> - Lutz
> email : lut### [at] stmuccom
> Web : http://www.stmuc.com/moray
No, you misunderstand. I'm already using mesh2 and my plugin is working
fine. I'm just thinking of exposing some of its configuration in a
user-editable file. Perhaps I should include an .inc file that users can
modify.
What I really need is to take what I have learned so far and go find a
programming or design job so I can afford to buy the full license for Moray.
I think you have a great product and it was a pleasure to learn C++ while
working with your SDK.
Henry
www.thenerdshow.com
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