[Plugin] Control points ver. 1.6.

dedmin · 12 Jan 2010, 19:47

Ой! Кажется какая то "волшебная" водка дает тебе творческие силы!

jim smith · 12 Jan 2010, 20:16

@dedmin said:

Ой! Кажется какая то "волшебная" водка дает тебе творческие силы!

Google translator

Oops It seems some sort of a "magic" vodka gives you the creative power!

I'll drink to that Thank you Kirill

Daniel S · 12 Jan 2010, 20:57

Awesome plugin Kirill!!!

Will be possible to add control points automatic to have this results?
If you select a line:

If you select a face:

For more information:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=19321

Daniel S
PS: I suppose that ask to add automatic slicing to entities like Fredoscale does (Bend, Twist...) would be asking too much?

mitcorb · 12 Jan 2010, 22:07

This is pretty much what I was asking here:

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=25082

In Blender they use variable "brushes" with adjustable radius of influence, sort of like the inverse square law, or sort of like -BTM's Sculpt tools. But the deformations can be spherical, or even planar. Your gifs show a sort of spherical effect.

This ability would be delicious

unclex · 13 Jan 2010, 14:29

Wonderful

kirill2008 · 14 Jan 2010, 19:17

The work on ver. 1.6. is still in progress...
The current stage new features:

wireframe preview of geometry group deformation is a bit faster now
ability to interact with curve control points is also available now

Demo video (first 3 minutes are about faster wireframe, last ones about curve control points):
[flash=320,265:2fn1qvwi]http://www.youtube.com/v/dO8Nk40IypQ&hl=ru_RU&fs=1& " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"[/flash:2fn1qvwi]

ver. 1.6. (prerelease again)

@daniel s said:

Daniel S
PS: I suppose that ask to add automatic slicing to entities like Fredoscale does (Bend, Twist...) would be asking too much?

Well, LibFredo6 is also free and open source and I think that almost everyone has it (Fredo tools are must-have ones), so, I guess, it is possible to utilize 'automatic slicing' if it is already implemented and present within the library. At least I'll try to.
Actually, I thought about something like adaptive tessellation around control point before, so I was going to make it anyway sooner or later.

@dedmin said:

Ой! Кажется какая то "волшебная" водка дает тебе творческие силы!

Ога, "волшебная": 3,2% жирности, производится в Чебаркуле , называется ряженка (fermented baked milk). По 0,5 в день и творческих сил, хоть отбавляй

EscapeArtist · 14 Jan 2010, 20:20

I see in your 1.5 update that you've fixed the "undo" error.

Fantastic, and thanks again for a great plugin!!

kirill2008 · 17 Jan 2010, 18:08

First steps of interactive face deformation:
[flash=480,385:2m8btgdg]http://www.youtube.com/p/8AB5C9C23863405C&hl=ru_RU&fs=1 " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"[/flash:2m8btgdg]
The initial face dividing was actually not so difficult. Treating deformed result surface as a single entity is more tricky... I don't know yet how to do it. So ver. 1.6. release is delayed again.

ver. 1.6. prerelease

kirill2008 · 19 Jan 2010, 22:20

Still prerelease...
ver. 1.6.(prerelease)

2 modes of interactive curve control points dragging: 1) 'preview' mode: shows curve preview while dragging, 2) 'full' mode: deforms the curve (it affects instances 'glued' to curve immediately, but sometimes causes SU crashes...), <Home> key to switch to 'preview' mode, <End> key to switch to 'full' mode.

Video shows 2 modes difference, when curves which are under control are also in use within 'blended object' (sublend.rb)
[flash=480,385:1q5ubzq1]http://www.youtube.com/v/Wt_Isl5tzP8&hl=ru_RU&fs=1& " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"[/flash:1q5ubzq1]

SHAHEEN · 20 Jan 2010, 01:47

thanks a million !!
Great Plugin

Merlan · 20 Jan 2010, 16:12

Amazing !!!
Thank you so much !!!

kirill2008 · 23 Jan 2010, 16:16

New version:
ver. 1.6.( prerelease)
New features:

the current version shows geometry deformation preview while moving control points (both geometry group control c-points and curve control c-points)
it is possible to choose preview mode by hitting <Ins> key (3 modes available: 1. flat-faced surface, 2. surface + edges, 3. wire)
[flash=480,385:33h537rh]http://www.youtube.com/p/5077FD48856CD56D&hl=ru_RU&fs=1 " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"[/flash:33h537rh]

mitcorb · 23 Jan 2010, 16:44

Kirill:
This looks excellent. I presume it will deform any volumetric mesh?
Are you by chance creating a bezier control mesh to do the deformations?

kirill2008 · 23 Jan 2010, 17:57

@mitcorb said:

Are you by chance creating a bezier control mesh to do the deformations?

Not exactly. Ctrlpnts.rb utilizes 2 different methods:

for curve shape changing: linear and cosine smoothed methods
for geometry group deformation: the same method as pnts2mesh.rb uses for creating terrain surface (when 'according to distance' z-calculation method is chosen)
The second method calculates offset vectors lengths of each vertex according to distances from it to all control points. The degree of influence of each control c-point depends on <1/(distance^power)>. Power is an adjustable value.

Currently I'm thinking about making a kind of substitute for nurbs surface (I don't know what will come of this). It is necessary to add possibility to adjust the slope of the surface area, which is under control of each c-point.

I guess it is possible after adding some linear terms to <1/(distance^power)>.

mitcorb · 23 Jan 2010, 22:59

Ok. Just curious. And thanks for your reply.
Does the plugin operate on ungrouped geometry, or groups, or components? Or, how does it deal with these. Even though I watched the video, I am missing something.
I presume this is better for smaller models, because I was trying to deform a rather dense mesh ungrouped. I made a selection of a portion of the mesh and the control point was lost in the blue highlights. It took me a while to find it. And I know I did something wrong because I saw the prompt at the bottom of the screen but I got no results--no action.
Also, I noted that in the plugins menu are some interact commands. But because there is no identifier in the command, I wasn't sure if this was related to Control Points. Perhaps you could do something there to identify with the script.
I was just the other day wishing for an operation like this that would do "smooth mesh deformations" such as in your video. I am using currently Sketchup 6 free version in Windows XP.
Thanks again,
mitcorb

pilou · 23 Jan 2010, 23:06

Sculpting in movement!

EarthMover · 24 Jan 2010, 00:44

Kirill,

1.6 looks amazing!

I was wondering if it would be possible to add an option to lock the initial outer edges? To lock the edges from moving, but still deform the face would be a great solution for mounding surfaces.

d12dozr · 24 Jan 2010, 06:17

@earthmover said:

I was wondering if it would be possible to add an option to lock the initial outer edges? To lock the edges from moving, but still deform the face would be a great solution for mounding surfaces.

That would also be nice for making cushions.

EarthMover · 24 Jan 2010, 22:17

I agree Marcus...for me it would be great for terrains and mounding flower beds. I would love to be able to replace Soap Skin Bubble and get rid of that annoying time limit BS.

mitcorb · 25 Jan 2010, 21:33

Kirill:
I think once you get this tool more or less finalized, you may want to have only one copy in the first post, and perhaps edit the post to reflect the current version number. You are probably already planning to do this.

I am still testing it.