I have a very elaborate character model I'm making... He used to be in segments but I decided to fuse them together and make one seamless model. Now the...
... Hi Jeffrey, there's a few things you can check: First, have you tried doing Face Consistent, then doing Invert Faces? Face Front just sets all the normals...
... but I ... all ... the ... places. ... nothing ... sets all the normals facing in the direction of your view, which means the rear-facing polys are now...
It's important to understand what Face Consistent does. It picks a triangle, notes which way it's facing, then finds all neighboring triangles (thos which...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 18, 2003 9:13 pm
1061
That's what I was afraid of. Thanks. At least now I know how I can prevent it. *works* ... *misses undo feature*...
... I know, I know! I'm working on that. It will probably be a few months before I have anything to show, though. Best, - Joe -- ...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 19, 2003 1:55 pm
1063
... Future: is this something that Meshwork could report to the user, to aid in isolating such problems? Edges that are common to more than two triangles? ...
... Yes, this is possible. Perhaps a "Find Overloaded Edges" command? Best, - Joe -- ,------------------------------------------------------------------. ... ...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 19, 2003 4:40 pm
1065
...Is there a way to remove a line without removing a point? I'm constantly in need of doing this. Is there a way to do it?...
... But of course! That's what the Delete Edge tool is for. Cheers, - Joe -- ,------------------------------------------------------------------. ... ...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 19, 2003 10:08 pm
1067
I'm building some stairs for a friend's deck and decided to see how MW would fare for some low-end architectural studies. It went better than I expected for a...
... That's a good idea. ... Yow, that's a very brave way. :) What I would suggest instead is select what you want in any pane, and then find some selected...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 29, 2003 2:01 pm
1069
While we're requesting features: 1. Scroll arrows instead of that bull's eye centering tool. 2. To be able to edit in a textures 3d view, instead of the Quesa ...
... Hmm, tricky. There's no range on any axis, which makes a scrollbar hard to apply. Also it'd take up more screen real estate, though maybe that doesn't...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 29, 2003 10:19 pm
1071
... You're writing it in RB I hope! Just think of all the potential Meshwork users that own Windows or Linux machines. Bob...
Robert Steely
robsteely@...
Sep 29, 2003 10:37 pm
1072
I'd be surprised if he rewrote it in RB. That would be a hell of an endorsement for the language, though. ... ============ Daniel R. Lurie ============...
On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 18:16 America/New_York, Joseph J. Strout ... If it slows down the next release: forget it. ... Yay. ... I'll take a separate app in...
... Having used IK in other 3D apps, it's not all that it's cracked up to be. Most of the problems I've run into using it is that when you push/pull on...
... Yeah, and it risks losing the selection if you mis-click slightly, which is easy when those vertices are all crammed together, and which sucks when the ...
I've just discovered that a change to my ISP's spam filtering has been causing Meshwork purchase notices to go into the trash instead of into my inbox. I was...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 30, 2003 7:48 pm
1078
Prepare to be flabbergasted, I think. ... From: Lars Jensen <larsjensen@...> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:05 pm Subject: [meshwork] Re: Feature...
... Nope, Lars is right. I'm rewriting Meshwork in REALbasic. It would take far too long to do it in anything else, and the result wouldn't be as nice. ...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Sep 30, 2003 8:43 pm
1080
Then I am surprised. On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003, at 16:40 America/New_York, Joseph J. Strout ... ============ Daniel R. Lurie ============...
Why? You don't think RB is up to creating a 3D editor? ... -- Joseph Nastasi Pyramid Design - a software development firm http://www.pyramiddesign.us Voice...
... That's great, Joe! While I realize that rewriting it in REALbasic will be a lot of work since Meshwork is a large, complex program, no doubt you will have...
Robert Steely
robsteely@...
Sep 30, 2003 10:33 pm
1083
... What I do is just use the marquee tool (love that M key, Joe) to shift-click on any empty area of a pane. Doesn't mess with your existing selection at...
Matt Howell
howellme@...
Oct 4, 2003 4:10 pm
1084
... Shift-M-click -- much better than my copy/paste hack. Thank you! The only glitch -- and it's a small one -- is that it requires more left-hand gymnastics...
... Of course! I've just been waiting for POV 3.5 for the Mac to become stable. Have they released a final version? (It was still in beta last time I...
Joseph J. Strout
joe@...
Oct 5, 2003 6:08 pm
1086
... It's stable enough providing you're using the latest version (3.5.1RC2 which unfortunately, expires on 15 Oct). I've used it to produce literally hundreds...