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Thanks Brent for explanation

bottleofram wrote:I have a question: how does it decide on what length to snap when holding ctrl?



I figured if you drag on the grid diagonally it will snap on grid points (pic1). Sometimes it has this .999 value which i assume is indefinite 9's problem, but other than that, it works. What would be brilliant is if you could snap the length on objects points or edges (pic2). With circular objects it seems to work, but not with the cube.

thanks, already fixed that, so It's behaving correctly like grid prim.
That 0.9999 is display glitch I believe. If you check prim ppg, it will show correct value.

Not sure how significant this is, but heres another strangeness:



Aligning seems off on the points that lie on the edges (here selected) where end and start of the revolving mesh meet.

Toonafish wrote:Great tool. Thank you very much !

A thing I noticed is that it works perfectly with a mouse, but with a Wacom holding the RMB to define the height doesn't seem to work very well. Even though I hold the RMB on the wacom pen, I can't seem to drag the height as far a I need, it stops almost immediately after clicking the RMB.

Has anyone else with a wacom noticed this ?

Same problem with my wacom here.

Late again but thanks for that great tool.

I started working on a click-and-drag tool for nulls, (each null has a local "transform setup " property for that tool ... rotating, translating, both, local XY, global YZ, view space etc... Nulls could be hidden and control icons only show up when the tool is active...)
Probably won't happen as I have no time for it, but I'll just drop the idea here in case someone would like to pick it up.

bottleofram wrote:Not sure how significant this is, but heres another strangeness:



Aligning seems off on the points that lie on the edges (here selected) where end and start of the revolving mesh meet.

When it comes to aligning to polymeshes It's always abit of wild guess. I'm using 'magic formula' for local frame axes taken from sdk helpfile.
If you pick that vertex on cylinder/sphere/... and activate local axis, you will see that (in this case) 1 vertex is off...

rray wrote:Late again but thanks for that great tool.

I started working on a click-and-drag tool for nulls, (each null has a local "transform setup " property for that tool ... rotating, translating, both, local XY, global YZ, view space etc... Nulls could be hidden and control icons only show up when the tool is active...)
Probably won't happen as I have no time for it, but I'll just drop the idea here in case someone would like to pick it up.

That's a great idea, something like Messiah armatures (or Transform Setup 2).

[wmv]http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/vids/Armatures_A.wmv[/wmv] [wmv]http://www.projectmessiah.com/x6/vids/Armatures_B.wmv[/wmv]



Animators and riggers would love it, too bad you can't accomplish it.
Maybe SI development team could chime in?

Exceptional tool! Love it and thanks a lot!
seems cannot assign shortcut for it...

Nizar wrote:Exceptional tool! Love it and thanks a lot!
seems cannot assign shortcut for it...

its called pmQuickPrimitive in custom script commands

GREAT tool, thanks for sharing!

A really nice addition would be to have the possibility to select a "custom" primitive. This way we would have something similar to the "bolts painter" (don't know the exact name) plugins for max, which are really useful.

Just an idea.

Well, thats a job for another plugin ;)

Recently tried this.. I created a pointcloud with an ICE tree that spawned its points using the SRTs of a group of nulls.

Gave the points an instance shape, could draw nulls using quickPrimitive, add them to the group, making them instances immediately.

This sort of does something like d-e-a-n meant, but what would be really cool if the nulls could be created directly inside the group. Then (I suppose) it would be possible to draw the instances interactively.

Well, thats a job for another plugin ;)

yeah right, "quickObjectPainter".

Recently tried this.. I created a pointcloud with an ICE tree that spawned its points using the SRTs of a group of nulls.

Gave the points an instance shape, could draw nulls using quickPrimitive, add them to the group, making them instances immediately.

This sort of does something like d-e-a-n meant, but what would be really cool if the nulls could be created directly inside the group. Then (I suppose) it would be possible to draw the instances interactively.

good thought rray, maybe worth a try.

This tool's even better than the last. Thanks again!

Does the pmQuickPrimitive command have a return argument for the class of primitive that was just drawn? I'd like to add support for this command to my plugin here: http://blog.blackredking.org/?p=184. Otherwise it'd be cool to allow interactive adjustment of subdivs after the primitive has initially been drawn.

thanks
no, it doesn't return such info
but I've added custom preferences just for that
as for interactive subdivs adj. I still thinking what would be a best way to do this. Maybe si-style value sliders next to primitive.

list of changes made so far
ADD: Add preferences for subdivions, plane helper size, axes size
ADD: cube primitive now uses scale x,y,z (free drawing like grid)
ADD: Tool Scope buttons grid/selected/scene
FIX: Cube prim with calcs wrong length
FIX: losing hotkeys
FIX: repeat last primitive /undo issue, subd. issue/
FIX: RMB not affected by LMB (height adjustments) /Wacom issue/
FIX: accurate snapping for height /cube, cylinder,cone/
FIX: subdivison surfaces raycast bug
FIX: drawing on grid without snapping
FIX: dont change mouse poisition on RMB /Wacom issue/

Hi, I've edited first post with new version! Please report bugs ;)