[Plugin][$] Curviloft 2.0a - 31 Mar 24 (Loft & Skinning)

EarthMover

Holy crap!!! Is that speed realtime? Looks amazing! Do the number of segments in the rails matter? Could this possibly be used to replace the standard from contours in the sandbox tools to create graded terrains?

xrok1

WOW! i love how you ruby greats are dragging SU kicking and screaming into the realm of a "real" 3d modeling program!
screw you google. if you won't give us proper tools someone will.
thanks Fredo, and everyone; TIG, ThomThom, Chris, Jim, Dedier, Whaat... just to name a few. you guys ARE the real SU team. all we really need from google is poly support. you guys cover the rest.

vidy

BRAVO FREDO

Panga

Really big thanks for investing so much time to give us so niceeeee plugins !! I'll try to post a file to test it on terrain modelling, which is my main occupation in SU.

thomthom

Looking very nice. Can one edit the control splines afterwards?

1:24 - Float Pal window: is that done using view.draw* method?

pilou

The Fredo return!
What a teaser!

What about make a thickness to a surface?

fredo6

@unknownuser said:

The Fredo return!
What a teaser!

What about make a thickness to a surface?

I guess this is a job for JPP. Curviloft only generates the thin surface.

Fredo

fredo6

@thomthom said:

Looking very nice. Can one edit the control splines afterwards?

1:24 - Float Pal window: is that done using view.draw* method?

Tom,

Yes the button palettes are all based on view.draw methods. And for Curviloft, I had to introduce the concept of a floating palette to allow edition of each of the individual sections, as shown on this small video:
Float palette.gif

Fredo

TIG

Fredo

As ever, a "tour de force".
Can't wait to try your new tools...
Very impressive interface and speed.

CadFather

sugar.. everytime Fredo starts these things, it's like another copernican revolution!

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

And for Curviloft, I had to introduce the concept of a floating palette to allow edition of each of the individual sections, as shown on this small video:
[attachment=0:3bpbsi8t]Float palette.gif[/attachment:3bpbsi8t]

Is that adjustments one makes before you end the tool? Or can you take a shape you created earlier and readjust it? On other words, is it parametric?

fredo6

@thomthom said:

@unknownuser said:

And for Curviloft, I had to introduce the concept of a floating palette to allow edition of each of the individual sections, as shown on this small video:
[attachment=0:x5clniez]Float palette.gif[/attachment:x5clniez]

Is that adjustments one makes before you end the tool? Or can you take a shape you created earlier and readjust it? On other words, is it parametric?

It's difficult to make things parametric in Sketchup, because all you have at the end is faces and edges.
My plan to help a little bit would be to attach some information to the Component created so that you can reedit later on.
also, and already working is the possibility to generate the juctions as curves so that when you move the profiles, then the shape deforms accordingly (something that is shown in Kirill's scripts).

Fredo

thomthom

Yea - it was something like that I was wondering if it would do. Very promising!

Once I get Vertex Edit out of the way I want to make Bezier Path modelling tools. The control points stored as attributes for later edit-ability. Of course, if the user was to edit the geometry with other tools that would be ignored.
If the observers behave better in the next SU I want to make modifiers that one can apply to groups/components. Stack them up and apply the modifications after the user edit the base shape.

notareal

Stunning! What a return.

Mike Lucey

I think I've figured out how Fredo is doing all this fantastic work ...... if you listen carefully to the video you will hear a lot of squeeking going on in the background ....... well these can only be Creative Gremlins!