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    • pep75P Offline
      pep75
      last edited by

      Thanks Pilou!! That's a great suggestion! But it would be greater if you have components that are copied on a surface...mmmm

      πŸ˜’

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      • Chris FullmerC Offline
        Chris Fullmer
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        Nothing like that at this point. I have a script that copies components onto faces and I think it might even scale them according to the area of the face. But it does not warp them to fit the face. Its been one of the scripts I've wanted to write for years now and I still have not gotten around to it.

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        • shuraS Offline
          shura
          last edited by

          Just played with component2faces plugin because of this thread..

          ..Chris, does your plugin really scale the component according to face size? That would be very interesting!

          As Pilou shows it really depends on what exactly you want to model. There are many solutions in SU, but after all it has not exactly parametric modeling features and such.

          There are some interesting threads about this topic, such as
          http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=30749
          http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=22713&p=412553

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          • Chris FullmerC Offline
            Chris Fullmer
            last edited by

            Hehe, I don't know. Maybe it doesn't. I wrote it years ago and haven't played with it since 😳

            I'll go look into it.

            EDIT: Looks like it does not. Must have been something I toyed with while developing it, or just dreamed about doing. Sorry!

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            • pep75P Offline
              pep75
              last edited by

              Hey Chris!

              Well your plugin, which is great by the way, does the job in another way...What really would be great is a plugin that 'fits' a component to a surface. So first you select a surface, then a component and finally the amount of components to be copied...I think this will give a LOT of possibillities and would be very very powerfull(also great for organic structures etc etc)...

              Grtzzz
              Pepijn

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              • olisheaO Offline
                olishea
                last edited by

                I've tried to achieve what you have described but it's not easy with a component-spray type tool. I tried it with just quadrangulated faces too to no avail.

                Fur plugin will distribute components across a face, can even change size,rotation, amount per face etc. What I can't stop is the random distribution of said components and the relationship with each other. A plugin like this would be fantastic.

                oli

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                • sdmitchS Offline
                  sdmitch
                  last edited by

                  We had this same conversation a year ago.

                  http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=39992

                  No one could solve it then either. When you say "'fits' a component to a surface", I take that to mean actually warping the component much like Shape Bender does on a curve. Is that a correct assumption?

                  Nothing is worthless, it can always be used as a bad example.

                  http://sdmitch.blogspot.com/

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
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                    You might look into Kirill LSS tools. I'm not sure it does exactly what you want, but it might help. The products that Kiril is able to get out of his plugin are pretty spectacular.

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                    • pep75P Offline
                      pep75
                      last edited by

                      Hey Sdmitch....Thanks for the link and yes this is exactly what I mean..."Panelisation"...And Olishea, your right, if there will be a plugin which can do so, it would indeed be fantastic!!!
                      ...Oh...and Chris I've been looking to the Kirill LSS tools and you're right that is is powerfull but it can't do "panelisation" πŸ˜‰!

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                      • pilouP Offline
                        pilou
                        last edited by

                        Why not use the Joint Push Pull by Fredo 6 on the surface
                        then the Mutiple faces Offset By Remus
                        then JPP again in the other way ? πŸ˜‰

                        Frenchy Pilou
                        Is beautiful that please without concept!
                        My Little site :)

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                        • olisheaO Offline
                          olishea
                          last edited by

                          Pilou I already tried something similar with JPP and greeble, it doesn't quite come out as expected if your mesh isn't exactly right...mixture of tris/quads not very nice. What if you want a different shape too?

                          I used sculpt tool on an offset grid with artisan and got some crazy results I didn't expect!! β˜€

                          http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u564/paintswords/array_zpscd360c6a.png

                          oli

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