Patch-It?

[lllab]

hi adam, we bought it already.

i am trying at the moment to figure out as it works.

it is certainly not a "one button wizard tool", but makes some nice things easier i guess.

i will post later when i have more time, and have tested a little more with the plug.

cheers

lllab

[AdamT]

Originally posted by lllab
hi adam, we bought it already.

i am trying at the moment to figure out as it works.

it is certainly not a "one button wizard tool", but makes some nice things easier i guess.

i will post later when i have more time, and have tested a little more with the plug.

cheers

lllab

Thanks. Does it come with English documentation?

[Squirrel]

Hi Guys!

I tried it already.. the basic workflow is like this:

-start the plugin
-select "objects"--> "input points"
- drop your points & splines into the window (close with "ok")
- chose "point select tool" - now you see all available points (yellow)
- mark the points you want to be used in your mesh (they change to green)
- click on tryangels (you get a preview mesh)
- if you are not happy with the result try another camera angle
(the building of the mesh is related to the camera position)
- finally click on "make it" to get the final version
- further you can now untriangelize it and put it into a hypernurbs

(you also can save and load point selections)

cheers
squirrel

[lllab]

thanks squirrel,
i will try it in the evening, do you think it works well?

cheers,
stefan

[AdamT]

There's no demo and I don't see it listed on their order form. How did you guys get the plugin?

[Squirrel]

yeah i think it works pretty well & fast :D

it has a great potential..maybe there will even be an update with more features (dunno if & when exactly).

cheers
squirrel

[Squirrel]

Originally posted by AdamT
There's no demo and I don't see it listed on their order form. How did you guys get the plugin?


you can order it directly by email

info@motion-gimmick.com


the order form should be updated soon, as it was posted in the german c4d forum.

cheers
squirrel

[lllab]

i send an email directly to motion-gimmick.
dagmar patzer will answer your question, though she is german.
(but she speaks english, i guess)

they said there is no demo, but for that they make it only 20 euro.
dagamr said its no wondertool but still very handy for a lot of tasks. there are 5 learning movies,, but havent checked them now.

cheers,
lllab

[AdamT]

Cheers guys, I'll give the e-mail a try.

[flingster]

it certainly looks very funky and i love the idea behind those two examples they give...loadsa splines etc...voila...landscape.

[AdamT]

FYI I got a reply from Dagmar. She says the English manual will be ready in a few days.

[flingster]

good work adamt...all sounds very interesting.

[do-it]

especially to squirrel for your helpful translation ;o)

We never thought that so many users would mail us feedbacks to this plugin! Whow!!!! It makes us optimistic (sorry, my english is awful, I know) to continue it with updates and new ideas for modelling. Please send us your ideas for better workflow or features and we will do our best to program the next version ;o)
to: patchit@motion-gimmick.com

First thing we will do is to update the menue.
I think better would be one menue without submenues.
...And we are thinking about creating parts of patches with "tryangles" and put them together before "Making" the patch.

cheers
Dagmar (do-it)
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motion gimmick

[JIII]

hmm is this that patch modeling people are always talking about?

just wondering because I know NOTHING about the subject really.

[ThirdEye]

make a search for spline patching, you'll find a lot of Lw tutorials and understand how patches work.

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