United3dArtists Archive

A TSX I'd love to see is one that can align all vertices of a face. trueSpace tends to be a bit inaccurate at times, especially when moving a face or a bunch of vertices around. (6.6 isn't as bad as 3.2 though. You could select a face in an ortho view, lock movement to one axis then move the face back and forth and watch the points drift wayyy off.)

I get better results with mirroring when all the points of the mirror plane are precisely aligned, which is a pain to do manually one at a time. Even if all it can do is shift all the points to 0 on the X Y or Z axis it'd be a huge time saver!

Other times when I need to align one vertex to another in all three axes, but on the opposite side of a model, it'd be nice to have a way to copy all three numbers at once, keeping the existing + or - of the destination coordinates being replaced, with that function selectable per axis. Sometimes the destination is already on the other side so it needs to keep its - or +, sometimes I'm doing major manipulation and I want to change the + value to a - value. If it just copied all three coordinates and I had to change the - values manually, big time saver.

If there's a way to disable that horribly annoying auto-refresh that half the time replaces what I've entered with the old value just as I'm hitting Enter... that would be a huge help!

Currently what I do is have notepad open and copy the coordinates of several vertices to it, then use it as a reference for changes. Would help to have a second monitor! An always on top, floating scratchpad within tS would be a good thing even with a TSX that does any of the above.

look here: http://www.designdevil.de/index.php?men ... 0&amount=4

for:

- Flattenface
- Flattenline

and

- SJCutnPaste

for an alternative Object Panel you can try: ObjectPanel

have fun

Yay! Happy day! *pillages your TSX collection*

The bevel library one will be very useful. Never have understood why they have so many tools, like Sweep, unable to keep their last settings. At least Bevel doesn't reset *after every use* like Sweep.

That normalize axes one will save many many clicks. Dunno why Caligari never provided a one-step button to normalize the location AND rotation of an object's axes.

I wonder if whomever remains at Primitive Itch would mind if you put up their Mesh Forge 2.1 to download since they're not selling it anymore? I have it, very useful, works great for twisting a cylinder with every other row of faces extruded a bit to create a cutter for making rifling in gun barrels... and so many more tricks it can do.