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SQUEE! Cool!

Casual - 11 June 2012 08:17 PM

LuluBelle1271 - 11 June 2012 07:52 PM

Sorry it seems I was confused when I said the superlathe did not have a drawing board for me.  It is there.  It just did not have the blue dots and red dot initially unless I load a previously created curve from mcjlathe.

oh then you possibly have one of the first versions
the recent versions contain a folder with 10 curves,
when the program starts, it tries to load one of those curves,
so if you use an old version folder and the curves are not there ... my fault sorry

for your trouble you win a pic of a rich maid

 

cool!  I ain’t never seen a maid with jewelry like that before.

~ News Flash ~ News Flash ~ News Flash ~ News Flash ~ News Flash ~ News Flash ~

mcjSuperLathe 1.0 will include a brand new deformer named gear or Cam or Cookie

which lets you mold objects to shapes like gears, cams, cookies, stars, and other toothed things

so, you’ll simply draw 1 tooth, select the number of teeth, and press a button

‘magin’ the possibilities

OMG….that is so cool!  So now I gotta download 1.0…I just downloaded .05 last night.  I like the additional deformers.  Thanks!

slick stuff

LuluBelle1271 - 12 June 2012 05:37 PM

OMG….that is so cool!  So now I gotta download 1.0…I just downloaded .05 last night.  I like the additional deformers.  Thanks!

v1.0 is the end of the journey we’re not there yet, but i will try to post version 0.6 tonight or tomorrow, which includes updating the manual/web page. Version 0.6 should include that new cookie/gears effect.

and a random image, unrelated , lets see

oh, I jumped the gun, eh? LOL…I thought you meant V 1.0 is available now with the new deformers.  Silly me.

bigh - 12 June 2012 06:17 PM

slick stuff

t’was easier than expected to program, and the results were surprising too

if i can finish this, then the dynamic hair thing, i’ll have time to make my stupid non-technical videos , yay

unrelated pic, Aiko riding a roomba robot-vacuum cleaner

note: what’s shown below is what will be in the not-yet posted version 0.6

1 - a radial shear deformer changes a torus into a sort of tire

2 - a radial scale deformer

3 - lets call it an axial, scale deformer,

4 - a symmetric / axial / shear effect applied to a cube

5 - a positive / axial /  shear effect applied to a cube

you can see it’s a scale effect because the shape retains come characteristics of a cube.

the new thing in version 0.6 will be, the object being deformed as well as the “gizmo” can be positioned, scaled, rotated any way;

so you could deform a tree branch which is not pointing along the usual axis

then the dynamic hair thing - what that all about

Everything looks fantastic so far! I’m holding out for 1.0, personally.

bigh - 14 June 2012 02:26 AM

then the dynamic hair thing - what that all about

t’was in the old forum in May, i started writing a script to animate hair like pigtails and ponytails

it will make them hang down according to gravity,

and prevent them from entering the shoulders and face,

it should also make them swing and sway, like a hair simulation ,
way faster than a real hair simulation, but less physically accurate

at first the system will work specifically for the Darling hair from
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/hair/long/aiko-3-hair-pack/

Vaskania - 14 June 2012 11:17 AM

Everything looks fantastic so far! I’m holding out for 1.0, personally.

one point zero has such a nice ring to it

Casual - 14 June 2012 12:35 PM

Vaskania - 14 June 2012 11:17 AM

Everything looks fantastic so far! I’m holding out for 1.0, personally.

one point zero has such a nice ring to it

Indeed it does. lol

the news is that the mcjSuperLathe’s 6 effects
“Scale”, “Twist”, “Shear”, “Bend”, “Press”, “Scale-Cam”
have almost reached completion, and version 0.6 is around the corner

picture 1
the “press” deformer projects the object on a wall having the shape of the curve
a thick object like a torus/donut would become a flat ring/band if the Press / Radial deformer was used

picture 2
mcjSuperlathe will let you “harden” segments of your curves.
this makes the segment of the curve a straight line
This was added in part to help the creation of gears

Picture 3
a gear which would be difficult to achieve without
this new segment hardening