2 New Free Plugins: AVT (Align to Vektor) and Advanced Atom Array

[Glyptic]

Wow! Thanks. AVT looks like something that will save quite a bit of time and pointless loud abusive language in my studio.

I know its free, but I'm looking up my PayPal password right now.

Grazzi,

glyptic

[moka.studio]

Thank you for sharing :thumbsup:
( and thank you to your friend who coded these)

[BCEmcke]

Cool. I am off to play with these. Thank you very much. :thumbsup:

[Continuumx]

Thanks for these two very nice plugins!

[wuensch]

Thanks a lot! very generous & very helpful plugs--

olli

[Rich-Art]

Thank you. Great plugs.


Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

[dAfTiE]

Wow,AVT looks extremely usefull.
Going to have a play with it right now.
Thanks to both you and your friend,very much appreciated.


Looks like there's a problem using undo with AVT in the C4D R9.5 demo.
My system is an AthlonXP 2500+,running windows 2000 professional SP4.

I simply used a sphere,moved some points around,aligned them,which worked fine,
and then I tried undoing to play around some more.

Here's the error message I recieved:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/daftie/AVT_Error_msg_9_5_demo.jpg

I'll get on my machine running 8.2 later today,hopefully,and I'll have a go on there too,
but right now I can't get on that machine.

Hehe,just registered at the bug tracker and saw it's already entered.

[umblefugly]

Same error in the R9.1 demo. Doesnt work on 8.5

[ahfatt]

looks great!! waiting for mac version... :bounce:

[ggriffaw]

Would it be possible to change Advanced Atom Array to allow you to enter the number of sides for the edges instead of just using cylinders or cubes? This would let you use triangles, hexagons, etc instead of being limited to circles and squares for the profile of the edges.

[Newstream]

2 New Free Plugins: AVT (Align to Vektor) and Advanced Atom Array

The plugins were requested by me and my friend coded them for me.

Both Plugins are freeware and ship without any waranty. A Mac Version isn't available at the moment.

Description in German and English is on the site.
http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/c4d-plugins/

I don't know on which Cinema version it'll run just test it.

Have fun
cya

Wow! This solves a problem I had earlier (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259445&highlight=align+points).
Thanks a lot! Very generous of you :thumbsup:

/ Alex

[VestanPance]

Very cool! Thanks for the plugs.

I get a crash as well with ATV. It seems to happen everytime I try to "undo". V9.1.

[mogh]

So you proofe me right. Cinema has the best comunity.
Zaphod is stocked by the feedback and hacks some more code in C++.

The Crash by undo is known and on top on the list. The mac version then and then the tweaks.

But He is at his 7th term in Electronic and Data technic (sounds wired in englisch, its basic airback, blootooth, or ABS Programing) so he has a priority and a new hobby i guess.

ggriffaw: i don't realy get what you mean, when you put cylinders on edges you can control the sides over the spehe subdivison - a gui cleanup is planned but not so urgent, so you can get triangles and so on.

little hint you can check cubes and cilynders both, and you get both (beware only the bigger one is seen)

8.5 hm it was started there but switched to new sdk. I can look up an old build perhaps i find one, but this one would not bet updated in the future.

[EDIT]: I found one its on the plugin site know, but beware its realy a first version of the plug, you can't even call it alpha!

thanks to all of you

[umblefugly]

Ah, duh, it was right there and I missed the 8.5 version...LOL seems to work great so far Thanks!:thumbsup:

[Pegasus]

Thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:

I like your website. Clean and frendly design! Great work... :)

[Mono Jojoy]

Nice advanced atom array.
One point for optimizations I see: The phong option does not allow for an angle setting which makes cube shaped struts look funny.

[mogh]

New Icons with Alpha Channel ("]Feature acknowledged[/url] Mono Jojoy,

I' ve found something that i can fix right now: [url="http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/wp-content/ftpuploads/plugin_icons.zip)
For those who can't wait for the new Version with these Icons. *g*

Zaphod is working on the Crash bug, he hase made some progress, at the moment AVT crashes only in a certain combination of redos and undos.

I'll keep you posted.

[mogh]

New AVT Version Out

Zaphod has worked hard on the code of AVT for the last 3 days and made some realy good inproofments to the AVT Plugin.

- The Point Highlighting and Snapping is a big enhancment to the workflow.
- AVT can now be restartet (Draw a new line) with the ESC Button.
- He has also improved the code for prevering the most foreground point. (no acidently hitting points from the mesh backside if a foreground point is near)
- The Undo Bug has been fixed. No crash anymore, but who knows, perhaps some feedback will sort this out.

- The one that affects some more than other is the PPC Version. Yeah you heard right a Mac version is now available.

You can grab the Updated Plugin at the Site.
http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/c4d-plugins/

Thanks for your Support.

[Jake-L]

Thanks, Guys!

A very nifty tool! Much appreciated.

[laiels]

great little workflow helper. Much appreciated. For the next version, maybe more advanced line drawing!!

[mogh]

Hi laiels

What do you mean with "more advanced line drawing"

Do you mean Visual improvments for the line itself.
or
Special version of lines such as bows loops.

cya

[laiels]

RIght now you can only draw a line between 2 points of a mesh for a single straight line. Maybe you could make it so that you could draw a line connecting more than 2 points on the mesh. Or better yet maybe you could implement c4d's spline drawing abilities and draw out a whole spline complete with curves ect and your plugin would just snap any points you select to the spline you drew out. just throwing out some ideas.

[mogh]

I see

"Spline" Drawing is in the Bug/Feature Tracker already but i think its the last position in the todo list.

First there must be a "Bugfree" normal Version.
Secondly this needs some more Plugin Coding expirience from Zaphod.

But keep Brainstorming. Everyone has a different aproach to modeling. So you never know what some Users need.

cya Mogh

[AdamT]

Thanks for the handy plugins. One thing I noticed is that AVT crashes Cinema if I try to undo.

[jimzepellin]

Many thanks. The AVT undo crashes here too.

[mogh]

Hm I spoke with AdamT he has downloaded the old version if you have the problem with the new 0.2 version you should give me some more input that i can reproduce the crash.

Because i cant crash it anymore by just undo. I've to undo redo undo ... to crash it.

Anyway thanks for the feedback.
cya

[brammelo]

Thanks for the plugins!

I especially like your translation of the following sentence:

"Nachher glatt wie ein Babypopo", which in English becomes "A nice “Class A Surface” afterwards". Now where did the German baby bottoms go to in the English version?

;)

Cheers,
BaRa

[Rich-Art]

Hm I spoke with AdamT he has downloaded the old version if you have the problem with the new 0.2 version you should give me some more input that i can reproduce the crash.

Because i cant crash it anymore by just undo. I've to undo redo undo ... to crash it.

Anyway thanks for the feedback.
cya

Here it will crash if I undo more than 1 step back. Often on the second or third undo.

Peace,
Rich-Art. :thumbsup:

Edit: not the second or third, but the fourth or fifth

[jimzepellin]

Hm I spoke with AdamT he has downloaded the old version if you have the problem with the new 0.2 version you should give me some more input that i can reproduce the crash.

Because i cant crash it anymore by just undo. I've to undo redo undo ... to crash it.

Anyway thanks for the feedback.
cya

I'm using
windows XP pro
C4D XL 9.5

As soon as I use undo C4D, up pops the error report screen, and C4D shuts down.

[mogh]

Hi

For all that are supscriped to this thread i just wanted to mention that a new version. of AVT is out.

Since you kept us going with feedback, mainly about crashes with undo Zaphod has fixed it. He has also managed to get some minor bugs fixed and added some more features to AVT.

0.3
- undo works now in any way, undo and redo and 9.5 modeling undo
- works now with splines too
- automatic redraw to see Hypernurbs deformation
- no blocked Keys anymore

The PC and Mac Version is for download on the Site right now.
http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/c4d-plugins/

have fun

[RangTang]

Loaded new version .03 and selected some points of both a spline and a six poly plane and crash, poof, pop-up, gone. I didn't touch the plugin so, I immediately removed plugin repeated the same selection and everything is stable. So, then I'm back at version .02 and repeated the same selection and no problems, but if using AVT .02 on spline points- crash. It is very useful and for now version .02 seems predictable enough.

[mogh]

acknowledged

I'm sorry for the crash. We didn't came to the simplest test ideas. Slecting no object and two objects.

A hotfix is in work. Just wait a few more hours and a new version will be out.

by the way the plugin doesn't work with splines and a polyobject (Ive to reconsider my translation on this feature) . You can now use the AVT on splines itself!

All of you who hasn't downloaded the 0.3 version jet please wait for the new one.

[mogh]

The Updated version 0.4 which solfes the problems is now for download (http://www.defcon-x.de/wordpress/c4d-plugins/downloads/) on the site.
This one should be "stable" (fingers crossed) for now.

Zaphod is still on the Plugin coding trip so perhaps some features will come. But the next release will get a real betatesting from me, so that something like v0.3 hopefully won't happen again. My appologies.

Have fun

[RangTang]

Installed v.04 and then I tried all sorts of selections and no crash, so I'm very sad that I can't complain. :hmm:
A Very handy Tool.

[bkjernisted]

Can someone tell me why this is happening.

[Pegasus]

Thanks for sharing!

:wip:

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