DeleD Community Edition

[Paul-Jan]

It's time for a little request from us, the humble developers, to you, the omnipotent community!

We would like someone to create a plugin that allows the artist to quickly create pipe geometry (straight, at an angle, with bends, etc). How, exactly, is up to your imagination. For example, you could have the artist input some numbers (total length, number of bends, diameter, etc) and have the plugin generate everything. Or, as an alternative approach, you could have the artist draw a 2D curved line (freehand or through straight lines and bezier curves) and extrude that into a 3D pipe. Or perhaps something completely different.

The reason why we ask for this is that such functionality gets requested pretty often, but we cannot find the time to implement it ourselves. It would be perfect for a plugin, and I'm sure it would be quite popular too!

If you are in any way interested in helping the community out by implementing this, please let us know!

Also, if you are an artist interested in using such a tool, please post your specific ideas on how it should work, so we can turn this thread into a nice and solid specification.

[paul_nicholls]

Hi Paul-Jan,
I am experimenting with making plugins at the moment and when I figure out how to pass primitives back to DeleD correctly, I will attempt to make something that does this type of thing

cheers,
Paul

[Jeroen]

Great news Paul. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask!

[paul_nicholls]

I do have one question, is it possible to clear the whole scene prior to 'importing' new data?

I experimented by loading a simple scene of a "cube" into the DeleD editor using a plugin and it added it to the scene already there instead of completely replacing it like I was expecting...

It is not much of a problem, but I am curious as to how to do it (if possible).

cheers,
Paul

[Daaark]

Importing implies adding a new object to the scene from a file source. Why would you want to clear everything else? Any user of your plugin wouldn't want that?
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[trucker2000]

[paul_nicholls]

Thanks guys,
I am now using the Delphi units created by Mr. Fletcher (http://www.delgine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2428&highlight=xml+parser) to convert DeleD scenes to/from XML and it allows me to totally replace the scene or add to the scene depending on how I use it

I am going to try making my plugin now

cheers,
Paul

[paul_nicholls]

[Jeroen]

Whoa, that's looking very much impressive there, Paul! Can't wait to see what other things you'll come up with. Also remember that if you want your plugin to be available for download here on delgine.com, there's always room in the plugin department. Keep up the good work!

[granada]

Nice work there Paul,thank you .

Dave
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[paul_nicholls]

Apart from a small bug that I am trying to find, I have gotten my basic extrude profile along path plugin working

You just add two 2d objects in XY view mode, select the profile primitive first, then add the path primitive to the selection and run the plugin. It asks for some options and then creates the extrusion

When I fix the bug, I will try and get it uploaded to this site. How do I do this when the time comes?

cheers,
Paul

[Jeroen]

Screenshots, we want screenshots!

When you're ready, feel free to email me at jeroen at delgine dot com with your plugin ZIPped. I'll add it to the plugin section of the site.

[paul_nicholls]

Hi guys,
here is a screenshot of the 'final'? plugin

[img]http://fpc4gp2x.eonclash.com/images/Extrude XY profile along XY path.PNG[/img]

@Jeroen: I have emailed the plugin .dll + .txt + screenshot in a zip file to your email address

cheers,
Paul

[granada]

This is looking realy cool,thanks again paul .

Dave
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[paul_nicholls]