@rv1974 said in [Plugin] Axyz - v1.1a - 8 June 24:

@Rich-O-Brien Yes and no. without copying Select Instances+Axyz works fine.
Maybe you with(?) Fredo could develop a new rock solid version of "select all instances"?
BTW many people request "select all instances" that would copy all instances regardless the context to the memory buffer. the 20 y.o. one that I use can't do that.

Sorry for the late answer, but.. did you try Selection Toys?
Selecti a single instance, right click and in the context menu go to "instances" and then you can choose if you want select "all" (regardless the context) or "active" (all instances in the current context).

@alexpacio2013 nice to see you here Roberto.. really cool models!

@GrimReap did you use it with individual parts or it can manage models with multiple elements like machinery and such?

@Rich-O-Brien said in Flowify:

400k entities

Which eventually will become 400 millions after the flowify cut

@Rich-O-Brien looks interesting.. is it robust enough to open complex stp files or it's meant to be used only for small objects?

@erikcoleman1992 it's a free plugin.

@alsomar said in [Plugin] QuadFaceTools:

other software such as Substance Painter or RizomUV may struggle to handle these duplicates correctly

Hi Alejandro, I have no problem at all in Substance with QFT obj files (I can even bake hipoly objs into low poly objs with no issue).

BTW it's a known problem and has been there forever.
There's also a problem with unwelded UV islands (the UV are in the right places but actually each quad has cuts/seams at all edges).

I shared a few info and workarounds about this problem years ago, but unfortunately Thom is really busy and apparently doesn't have time to fix it for now, so we still have to use workarounds.

https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/129714/plugin-quadfacetools/634

The workaround in 3dsMax I mentioned in that post is outdated.
Now I just filter the selection for polygons with 3 sides (in the selection tab) and erase all of them.
In some cases I also export from QFT to Blender and then export an FBX to 3dsMax.

@Rich-O-Brien
That's fine, I was just wondering if any important stuff in messages could be lost.
I can wait for sure..
By the way this works pretty nice on the 4,5" screen of my phone.
The old forum was almost unusable.

@Rich-O-Brien said in NEW Forum Software Issues:

Its been a huge undertaking to get the old content into this newer system.

Wow, really promising so far..
I wonder if beta forum and old private messages will be retrieved later on or if they are lost..

@duanekemp said:

not a solution for "on purpose" projects.

A couple of weeks ago, while I was modeling that compost turning machine you probably saw on sketchup facebook page, a friend came out with one of those "magic" AI modeling website..
He prompted the robot to produce "A square sofa pillow with white and red stripes" to put it in a rendering.
The robot proposed 4 different (half decent) pillows and he was like "You see? You can use this stuff for actual work".

So I was curious to test it for my "actual work" and prompted in more or less the following (which were the exact requirements for my animated model) just to see to what extent it could be "useful":

I need a self-propelled compost heap turning machine, about 3 meters tall and 4 meters wide.
It should consist of 3 draw calls, the first one for the main body, the second one for the animated tracks and the third one for the animated roller.
The main material should be orange paint with compost splats coming from below and the "AMIU Puglia S.p.a" logo on the back of the cabin.
The textures should be packed for Unity HDRP metallic-smoothness PBR shader.
I need the UV chart to be split in 2 different UDIM tiles, a 4k set for the main body and a 2k set for the animated parts.
It should be rigged to follow a spline and I need constraints on the tracks and the roller in order to follow accordingly whenever the model animates along the spline

The robot proposed 4 different machines similar to a coffee grinder (static models, with only base color map, about 1m x 1m x 1m large, with no tracks or roller whatsoever).
Two were blue and two were green.
None of them was at least orange.

So yeah.. that's it