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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
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      Holy crap, TT. I saw you post in the (other) forum to Pete and was wondering. Good news is that I seem to have some spare space in my toolbars...

      Gai...

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        It has been a wee little distraction from Bezier Surface, but not completely. As I need the same selection routines in both plugins. This has been a playground experiment. πŸ˜‰ Win-win!

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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        • Rich O BrienR Online
          Rich O Brien Moderator
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          I'd pay for this πŸ‘

          Excellent tool!

          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
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            @unknownuser said:

            I'd pay for this πŸ‘

            You said it - go ahead then!

            (I also owe you a ton of cookies, TT!)
            πŸ˜„

            Gai...

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            • EarthMoverE Offline
              EarthMover
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              SWEET! This has been a long time dream finally realized. Thanks for all your amazing contributions Thomas! We are lucky to have you in our community! πŸ‘

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
              Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
              Content Creator at Skapeup

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              • fredo6F Offline
                fredo6
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                Tom,

                All my support for your initiative, which is, I believe a big undertaking.

                As a contribution, I'll include an option to generate quads (under your definition) in Curviloft (the preview display is based on quads, precisely).

                Fredo

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  As a contribution, I'll include an option to generate quads (under your definition) in Curviloft (the preview display is based on quads, precisely).

                  πŸ‘ πŸ‘
                  That's great Fredo! The more tools we get that generate geometry like this the better topology we can create in SketchUp with better tools.

                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • PixeroP Offline
                    Pixero
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                    This will be most useful. Thanks!

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                    • B Offline
                      Booman
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                      Awesome plugin... will definitely try out for some organic modeling

                      Brian McCracken
                      In The Red Website Design

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                      • EarthMoverE Offline
                        EarthMover
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                        Been playing with it and it's really great. Thanks again. Been playing with Artisan meshes with some mixed results, but after a few Make Quad operations, I can get the whole mesh to quadrify.

                        Any plans on adding a Ring Connect option as a way to add additional loops?

                        3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                        Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                        Content Creator at Skapeup

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
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                          @earthmover said:

                          Been playing with Artisan meshes with some mixed results, but after a few Make Quad operations, I can get the whole mesh to quadrify.

                          I meant to make a whole video tutorial for that. It's best not to make the starting point at the edge of a mesh. That might yield some odd results. And holes in the mesh might also produce unexpected results. And I suspects meshes where the quads are not uniformly laid out, but need star connections could throw some odd results as well.
                          If you find that the quadification of a mesh yields odd results it might help if you manually quadify some of mesh first. A couple of quads around holes and star connections.
                          Got any sample models to share by the way. I did not have any organic models with regular mesh to test on.

                          @earthmover said:

                          Any plans on adding a Ring Connect option as a way to add additional loops?

                          What is a Ring Connect?

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
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                            @earthmover said:

                            Been playing with Artisan meshes

                            Perhaps an idea to request Dale to add an option to generate the mesh as quads? That'd be pretty sweet.

                            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                            List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            • Rich O BrienR Online
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
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                              What's the icon at the end of Vertex Tools? I don't have it in mine?

                              Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
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                                @unknownuser said:

                                What's the icon at the end of Vertex Tools? I don't have it in mine?

                                Cursed your keen eyes! Now I have to kill you!

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  thomthom
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                                  @gaieus said:

                                  Holy crap, TT. I saw you post in the (other) forum to Pete and was wondering. Good news is that I seem to have some spare space in my toolbars...

                                  By the way Gaieus, with meshes build from quads, making UV tools becomes easier.
                                  It was in fact one of the biggest challenges I had/have with UV Toolkit, being able to sort the geometry into predictable chunks. Now I can build upon the requirement that the mesh is quads, which makes the traversing of the mesh and mapping much easier. πŸ˜‰

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  • Rich O BrienR Online
                                    Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                    Mwah ha hah hah hah haaaaaaa πŸ‘Ώ

                                    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                      thomthom
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                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      Mwah ha hah hah hah haaaaaaa πŸ‘Ώ

                                      Just for the sake for retaliation and mute your excitement, it's simply a Collapse function. So there! Hah! No magic!

                                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
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                                        @thomthom said:

                                        @unknownuser said:

                                        Mwah ha hah hah hah haaaaaaa πŸ‘Ώ

                                        Just for the sake for retaliation and mute your excitement, it's simply a Collapse function. So there! Hah! No magic!

                                        In reality it's a function to call upon all my killer robots to home in on Rich - as you can see from the iconic representation. Yes, that is right, I'm giving everyone who buts Vertex Tools this mighty power! muhahahah!

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • Rich O BrienR Online
                                          Rich O Brien Moderator
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                                          I'll use my Chuck Norris plugin πŸ‘Š

                                          Too extreme to release on this forum it's only for double hard bastards πŸ‘

                                          Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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                                          • EarthMoverE Offline
                                            EarthMover
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                                            @thomthom said:

                                            @earthmover said:

                                            Any plans on adding a Ring Connect option as a way to add additional loops?

                                            What is a Ring Connect?
                                            It's fundamental for creating support edges for hard subdivision surfaces and to model organic surfaces while still maintaining quads. In Max, the Edit Poly Connect, gives you options to also slide and spread the loops along the width of the edge ring in order to "weight" the edges, define creases, etc. In Sketchup, you could always move a copy of a loop, but on an organic surface it doesn't always line up right. Even a simple option to connect edge rings at the midpoints would be helpful.


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                                            edgeconnect-process2.png

                                            3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                                            Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                                            Content Creator at Skapeup

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