[Plugin] QuadFaceTools

notareal · 23 Aug 2011, 14:58

Wow!

thomthom · 30 Aug 2011, 11:22

@earthmover said:

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

I just felt like teasing you with a screenshot of a new tool I've been working on...

( What I'd love to do later on to improve it is to adapt the splits to the geometry around them. )

babman91 · 5 Sept 2011, 16:24

Remind me to donate tons of cookies when I graduate from college after a year

thomthom · 6 Sept 2011, 13:21

@earthmover said:

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

I finally got it working! Just need to finish the UI.
I hope to release 0.3 this week.

thomthom · 9 Sept 2011, 15:45

Version 0.3.0

Connect Edges
Insert Loops
Remove Loops
Flip Edges

EarthMover · 9 Sept 2011, 15:48

Greatness achieved my friend! Thanks for all you do in the name of progress!

thomthom · 9 Sept 2011, 15:57

@earthmover said:

:sketchstatic: Greatness achieved my friend! Thanks for all you do in the name of progress!

This release is dedicated to you my friend.

thomthom · 12 Sept 2011, 22:51

Updated the first post with a video of a coming UV mapping feature.

Rich O Brien · 12 Sept 2011, 22:59

I want to play too

Where'd you get that UV Map?

thomthom · 12 Sept 2011, 23:11

@unknownuser said:

Where'd you get that UV Map?

Made it myself. I use it in my template where I have replaced the Googlers with a 1x1x1m standard metric UV mapped cube.

EarthMover · 12 Sept 2011, 23:40

Nice work with the UV idea. Just so I understand, once you are able to establish the orientation via the quad distribution, you can then use a larger map over the entire surface and have it distribute evenly? It's not going to just scale the texture per the quad boundaries, correct? If it's doing what I think, it's bloody brilliant!

Stinkie · 13 Sept 2011, 05:26

Wait, wait ... just woke up, so let me see if I got this right ... no more distorted textures?

thomthom · 13 Sept 2011, 07:54

@earthmover said:

Nice work with the UV idea. Just so I understand, once you are able to establish the orientation via the quad distribution, you can then use a larger map over the entire surface and have it distribute evenly? It's not going to just scale the texture per the quad boundaries, correct? If it's doing what I think, it's bloody brilliant!

That is correct. But there are limitations to the topology though. It must be free of poles. ( http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?93651-Poles-and-Loops&p=849794&viewfull=1#post849794 )

@unknownuser said:

Wait, wait ... just woke up, so let me see if I got this right ... no more distorted textures?

Not necessarily, mapping a planar quad with edges not parallel to each other will result in a distorted texture. One the other hand, if you triangulate it, then the mapping of the two triangles in the quad be skewed instead of distorted. And that will lead to less problems with render engines.

thomthom · 4 Oct 2011, 20:54

Version 0.4.0

Important!
This version redefines what a QuadFace is. In order to use quad face meshes used by older versions you must update them.
Tools > QuadFace Tools > Convert > Sandbox Quads to QuadFace Quads

Download

Changelog 0.4.0

UV Mapping
[flash=560,315:23wd2kgt]http://www.youtube.com/v/HdX517AryWs?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:23wd2kgt]

UV Transferring
[flash=560,315:23wd2kgt]http://www.youtube.com/v/qQHsabwvErg?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:23wd2kgt]

UV Unwrap
[flash=560,315:23wd2kgt]http://www.youtube.com/v/hnW_yjkM_SY?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:23wd2kgt]

Rich O Brien · 4 Oct 2011, 21:02

That is immense.

I commend your hard work and perseverance

derei · 4 Oct 2011, 21:14

As I recall, you have (at least) two more plugins that do some related stuff. Does it replace any of them? I'm asking to know if I should remove something from what I already have.

Thank you for this one.

Rich O Brien · 4 Oct 2011, 21:21

Is a portion of the UV Toolkit 2 tools now redundant?

TIG · 4 Oct 2011, 21:27

Thanks thomthom
I've also updated and posted my 'EEbyRails' and 'EEbyLoft' tools today so that their new 'Quad Face' options follow the latest standards, where diagonals are soft+smooth+hidden...

thomthom · 4 Oct 2011, 21:27

Yea, parts of the features in UV Toolkit is now in QuadFace. And the mapping tool I promised for UV Toolkit is now implemented in QuadFace Tools, because I found that mapping required a predictable topology.

UV Toolkit is not 100% obsolete yet, but it might slowly become so. I don't expect I'll add more to UV Toolkit, instead QuadFace Tools will get the new features.

However, I now plan to take a break from QuadFace Tools ( final last words... ) while I return focus on Vertex Tools and Bezier Surface. (Both which will benefit from many of the features in QuadFace Tools.)

thomthom · 4 Oct 2011, 21:28

@tig said:

Thanks thomthom
I've also updated and posted my 'EEbyRails' and 'EEbyLoft' tools today so that their new 'Quad Face' options follow the latest standards, where diagonals are soft+smooth+hidden...

Wow! That was fast!