Subdivide and Smooth Feature Requests

xrok1 · 21 Apr 2009, 00:34

Another question I have is this:
Does anyone ever use the 'copy materials' option? It is slow and does not properly interpolate the UV coordinates. I had in mind to fix the UV issue but my preference would be to remove the feature entirely. It will always be slow and I wonder if there is any significant benefit to it. Fixing the UV issue will take a lot of time and I would rather devote time to other features. Any thoughts?

it would be great if it worked, i think everyone would use it. if for nothing else than selection sets by material.

utiler · 21 Apr 2009, 22:59

@unknownuser said:

Free or nominal Upgrade to those who bought?

Has this been answered yet......?

remus · 21 Apr 2009, 23:19

Whats so bad about the current SDS that you need a free upgrade to win you over?

utiler · 21 Apr 2009, 23:26

@remus said:

Whats so bad about the current SDS that you need a free upgrade to win you over?

Nothing Remus, just wanting to keep up with the latest release....

Whaat · 22 Apr 2009, 03:35

@utiler said:

@unknownuser said:

Free or nominal Upgrade to those who bought?

Has this been answered yet......?
I really don't know the answer to this. It is too early to say. I really hope we can set up a system on Smustard to provide a nominal upgrade price for those who bought. As far as I know, Smustard is still not set up to do this. I know RickW was looking into this and I intend to ask him what the status is.

utiler · 22 Apr 2009, 04:43

Thanks for the update Dale.....

remus · 22 Apr 2009, 07:36

Sorry for being a bit snappy there andrew, i thought you meant it in 'SDS wasnt worth the cash the first time so we should get a free upgrade' sort of way Thats obviously not the case.

utiler · 22 Apr 2009, 09:55

Certainly not mate..... I wouldn't have spent hours creating an Australian Steel profiles library to upload if it wasn't worth it!!!!!

Bobby Cheung · 1 May 2009, 10:42

Hi, i was wondering how can i add a thickness to a curved object'surface? eg like offsetting it. The reason of asking is let say if i have to creat a mould for a product, and i need to give a thickness to the rapid prototyping machine.

remus · 1 May 2009, 12:19

Have a look at fred06's joint pushpull plugin (you should be able to find it in the ruby forum.) Sounds like it should do what your after.

xrok1 · 1 May 2009, 21:34

@whaat said:

@utiler said:

@unknownuser said:

Free or nominal Upgrade to those who bought?

Has this been answered yet......?
I really don't know the answer to this. It is too early to say. I really hope we can set up a system on Smustard to provide a nominal upgrade price for those who bought. As far as I know, Smustard is still not set up to do this. I know RickW was looking into this and I intend to ask him what the status is.

could you not just have ver-3 and ver-3upgrade as two seperate scripts (products) on smustard?

remus · 2 May 2009, 06:45

Whats to stop someone just buying the upgrade instead of the full version?

xrok1 · 2 May 2009, 18:55

make ver.3up dependant on one of the files from ver.2, maybe the icons or something. hell, i'm sure Whaat could figure something out. i know i don't want to pay full price for an upgrade thats for sure.

Click Draw · 2 May 2009, 20:34

@utiler said:

Certainly not mate..... I wouldn't have spent hours creating an Australian Steel profiles library to upload if it wasn't worth it!!!!!

I'm a bit confused here. What profiles are you able to use in SDS? Are you maybe talking about profile builder?

Jeff

notareal · 14 May 2009, 09:16

ely862me did address to most of my requests.

notareal · 14 May 2009, 09:22

@xrok1 said:

make ver.3up dependant on one of the files from ver.2, maybe the icons or something. hell, i'm sure Whaat could figure something out. i know i don't want to pay full price for an upgrade thats for sure.

Don't want to have a unused scrip hanging in the plugins folder. But perhaps installer that looks existing subsmooth, removes it and then installs a new one, would do the trick.

utiler · 14 May 2009, 23:11

@click draw said:

@utiler said:

Certainly not mate..... I wouldn't have spent hours creating an Australian Steel profiles library to upload if it wasn't worth it!!!!!

I'm a bit confused here. What profiles are you able to use in SDS? Are you maybe talking about profile builder?

Jeff

Sorry Jeff, yes, talking about PB...

remus · 22 May 2009, 18:47

Not sure if you've seen this: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tc270/subdnurbs.html

looks interesting, though.

p.almeida84 · 29 Oct 2009, 11:58

Hello there,

There have been great sugestions for new for new SDS features, i would love to define the crease hardness or softness, kind of like you showed in your BLEND mock up. Also it would be very nice to have a free move tool, where we can select vertices and move them in a free way, just like it function on 3d studio max, so it would'nt be so anoying when the actual move tool kind of stick to the axes and the surounding geometry.
And one more question, for when can we expect the new version of SDS?

Greetings

Whaat · 29 Oct 2009, 17:48

@p.almeida84 said:

Hello there,

There have been great sugestions for new for new SDS features, i would love to define the crease hardness or softness, kind of like you showed in your BLEND mock up. Also it would be very nice to have a free move tool, where we can select vertices and move them in a free way, just like it function on 3d studio max, so it would'nt be so anoying when the actual move tool kind of stick to the axes and the surounding geometry.
And one more question, for when can we expect the new version of SDS?

Greetings

Thanks for your suggestion. What do you mean by 'move them in a free way'? It sounds like you want inferencing disabled for vertex movement and be able to move them left/right/up/down relative to the current camera view. That should be possible.

As for the next version, development has been a bit delayed but I hope to resume work on the plugin very soon.