DeleD Community Edition

chronozphere · Last edited by chronozphere on Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:51 pm; edited 4 times in total

Hey guys

I've been working on this plugin for a few months, because I thought DeleD needed some proper UV-editing tools. In my opinion, UV-mapping is a very tedious job in the current version of DeleD. That's why I made this plugin. I think it's time to show it to you. It's far from finished, but it is usable. Very Happy

Features:
> An UV and a 3D viewport for a WYSIWYG UV-mapping experience
> Vertex, Edge and Polygon mode
> Move, Rotate and Scale tool
> Snap-To-Grid and "Angular snapping" (for rotation)
> Elements are highlighted simultaniously in both viewports when you move your mouse over them
> Click- and Drag-Selection supported in both views
> Backface culling (for selecting and rendering)
> Texture in background in UV-View

Things I want to implement
> A free 3d camera (the current one always looks at the origin)
> Align/Mirror/Weld tools
> Planar/Cylindrical/Spherical texture mapping
> A "preferences" window

Known issues
> NashaUV is not a high-performance tool. If you load objects/scenes with a few thousands of vertices, It might get a little too slow.
Seperate your scene in objects and texture them one by one.
> NashaUV expects "proper" geometry. Only non-intersecting convex polygons must be used. Delete any redundant vertices before texturing.
> Because I use OpenGL picking for selections, the plugin might not work properly on some systems, due to crappy driver-implementations. I can't fix this, sorry!
> The "options" toolbutton is there, but it doesn't work (yet).
> Only the vertex, edge and polygon mode work. The mapping modes don't work yet.
> If you don't see any UV-coordinates, use boxmapping first before firing up the plugin. Smile

To download NashaUV, click here:

Download

Just unzip it and dump it in the Plugins directory. Smile

I hope the archive is not damaged.

How to use:
Moving the camera and selecting works very similair to DeleD. There are a few differences:
> Shift + Ctrl + Click/Drag adds elements to the selection while Shift + Alt+ Click/Drag removes elements from the selection.
> The 3d camera always looks at the origin
> Use the top-left toolbutton to change the current edit mode.
> "Culling" (check statusbar) also has an effect on drag-selecting in 3d-view. With culling enabled, only the visible faces will be selected.
> Doubleclick the "NO TEXTURE" text in the statusbar to make the texture visible as background in UV-view.
> Click the "floppy" icon to save the changes to DeleD.

Some screenshots:

Unfortunately I don't have much time to work on this project. I'm going on two holiday's and I want to join the PGD competition. Nevertheless, I'll try to keep working on it and add the features on my wishlist.

Any comments/questions/bug-reports are welcome. Wink

Hope you like it.

chronozphere

trucker2000 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject:

I got a bad block error message when I unzipped, and this doesn't show up in the pluggins.
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chronozphere · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject:

Okay... I've now uploaded a ZIP instead of a RAR. Can you try again?

Ofcourse, unzip it first and put the DLL in the plugins/ directory. Smile

trucker2000 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject:

That worked. I'll have to play with it for a bit to learn it, but in just a few seconds I was moving my UVs around. Thankyou for this. Smile

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fik · Member Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 303

This looks really interesting will download and have a go with. Hope you do get time to keep working on this however slowly Smile

paul_nicholls · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:14 am Post subject:

It's great news to hear that you have something to show for your DeleD UV editor plugin!

Great job! Smile

cheers,
Paul
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paul_nicholls · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:20 am Post subject:

Hi chronozphere...I downloaded your UV plugin and am trying it out...

I did notice one thing - when pressing the floppy disc to save, I get this dialog box error (obviously due to hard coded paths in code):

chronozphere · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject:

Oops... I probably left that in my code for debugging purposes. Need to get rid of that. Embarassed

EDIT:

Here is a newer version that doesn't have the "E:/test.xml" problem. It also has a new mirror tool. Very Happy

Download the archive here!!

Hope I find some time to work on this. I just started at university, so I'm very busy ATM. Sad

chronozphere · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject:

Okay... Update:

Changes:
* a freely movable camera Razz

* some bug-fixes, AV's and such

The link in the startpost also points to the latest version, but here it is anyway:

Download

And another screenshot:

Is anyone using my plugin? Confused

Please, give it a shot. I use it all the time. Smile

nono · Member Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 12

thank's for your work, i download it and i will test next week end Wink

(this one is my wife birthday, so no computer Laughing

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harper · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:38 pm Post subject:

One question, Chrono:
Will Your Plugin overwrite the original uv-mapping from DeleD or am i free to use both? I'm soo familiar with the inbuilt one,
so i don't want to miss it.

Mr.Fletcher · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject:

It doesn't override the built in one if it's used as a plugin. It just adds its functionality.
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Jeroen · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject:

I'll include this version with the next version of DeleD (2.3).

I did notice something strange though. The first time I start a fresh install of DeleD and run the plugin, the plugin says the TextureDirectory is invalid. Restarting DeleD and running the plugin again and things work as expected. Also, the filename mentiones 0.56 as version number but the plugin says it's 0.46. Something you want to take a look at?
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chronozphere · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah.. I'll take a look at those issues ASAP. Thanks for reporting them. Smile

Edit: Ok, the version number issue is fixed, but that's not worth a new upload lol. Cool

The plugin reads the texture directory from the INI file. However, when DeleD starts for the first time, these paths are not initialized in the INI. The [dirs] section is empty. I'm not sure whether I should work around this or not? Maybe you can put the correct paths there, so that all plugins can rely on the INI file. Any other suggestions?

Jeroen · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject:

Ah, ok then. Minor issue, I think, as this only happens when using plugins the first time DeleD is being run after installing it. I think you should not work around this in the plugin.
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