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    • A Offline
      agamemnus
      last edited by

      Is there any way to skin connected lines with this? For instance, I have several "curved" triangular faces. In each case, all three sides are curves. I have to manually skin each of these triangles and it takes a while. 😞

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      • Chris FullmerC Offline
        Chris Fullmer
        last edited by

        Hmm, have a picture you could post here to show it better? There are a few scripts out there, not sure if any quite do what you have in mind though. But it mgiht help to see an example,

        Chris

        Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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          majid
          last edited by

          mayebe this can help what i mean:


          skin-as-in-MAX.jpg

          My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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          • Chris FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            If it's any consolation, that is high on my list of plugins to get finished. Its not quite 1/2 way done yet, and I am not working on any intense rubies right now due to my school schedule. But maybe in a couple weeks I'll get back into that script full time. It is probably going to be built into shape bender. Only time will tell though.....

            Chris

            Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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              Daniel S
              last edited by

              a loft tool would be really useful!

              I made this quick example with Bonzai3D:
              Bonzai3D Loft.gif

              Daniel S

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                Cracks me up how you have Bonzai set up to look like SketchUp. very decieving!

                There are so many ways that a loft tool could or should be implemented. The one you show there is fairly easy to code. But (for my Ruby skillz) it becomes problematic when you want it to work on various axes, with open and closed splines, and with more than just 2 splines.

                All of these problems are easy to overcome - with some smart coding.

                Oh, and I just realized another problem. Oh dear, that one might set me back a long time until I figure out the math behind bezier curves 😄

                Chris

                Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                • Chris FullmerC Offline
                  Chris Fullmer
                  last edited by

                  Well, I've got about 80% of the math figured out. But thats only about 20% of the script. but here's a little video to show it in action.

                  There is no sound.
                  [flash=663,635:3k49plhs]http://www.chrisfullmer.com/chrisfullmer/forums/loft1.swf[/flash:3k49plhs]

                  Chris

                  Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
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                    Marian
                    last edited by

                    Aweosme Chris, this will be very usefull

                    http://marian87.deviantart.com/

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                      pilou
                      last edited by

                      What about shell after the skin? (JPP by Fredo6 ?)

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
                      My Little site :)

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                        Sir
                        last edited by

                        @chris fullmer said:

                        Well, I've got about 80% of the math figured out. But thats only about 20% of the script. but here's a little video to show it in action.

                        There is no sound.

                        Chris

                        😮 this looks amazing!

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                          AcesHigh
                          last edited by

                          holy crow Cris!! It must feel good to be a god!! Can we worship you? 😄

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                            Daniel S
                            last edited by

                            Very good preview Chris!! 😍 😍 😍
                            Please keep us updated about the evolution with more videos.

                            Daniel S

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                              remus
                              last edited by

                              Making good use of that new found bezier knowledge, i see 👍

                              http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                AcesHigh
                                last edited by

                                oh boy, I am quite excited about Chris take on this plugin... I have reloaded the forum page some 5 times in the last hour to check if Chris had posted any update. Like if the poor chap had nothing else to do 😆

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                                  utiler
                                  last edited by

                                  Me too!!!

                                  purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                                    Chris Fullmer
                                    last edited by

                                    Yeah, me too!

                                    It is coming along well and I put some time into it today, and got some insight into how other scripts implement lofts.

                                    I might have a very simple prototype up and running tonight or tomorrow. Ive got it working pretty good, it just doesn't smooth from spline to spline. But its still very fun to play with.

                                    Chris

                                    Lately you've been tan, suspicious for the winter.
                                    All my Plugins I've written

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                                      majid
                                      last edited by

                                      OMG, holly cow!
                                      that is an upper UP in sketchUP
                                      you are great man!!

                                      My inspiring A, B, Sketches book: https://sketchucation.com/shop/books/intermediate/2612-alphabet-inspired-sketches--inspiring-drills-for-architects--3d-artists-and-designers-

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                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        See a first demo there!(page 2)

                                        Frenchy Pilou
                                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                        My Little site :)

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                                          utiler
                                          last edited by

                                          Now, back on topic...

                                          Darrel, One small request, can you located the latest Skin.rb file on your first post please? For some reason my skin ruby wasn't working and i had to filter through 12 pages of posts to find Version 2.5 [I assume it is the latest version...]. This is another reason why it would be handy to put the updates on your first posts, [as does Fredo, Whaat, Chris...] is that they post a compressed file named the version in questions...

                                          Would just make things easier to find.
                                          Thanks for a great script, BTW!!!! 🎉 🎉

                                          purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                                            utiler
                                            last edited by

                                            BTW, on the Skin Files thread:
                                            http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6912&hilit=plugin
                                            it referes to the current version as 2.2.....
                                            then on this thread on page 12 the current version is 2.5....

                                            😕

                                            purpose/expression/purpose/....

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