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17th Sep 2008, 10:35 AM
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 MilkShape Plugin : Cat's Normal Smoother - smooth selection only, correct seams
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CatOfEvilGenius
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Not actually evil.
Join Date: Oct 2006 |
Cat's Normal Smoother PURPOSE This MilkShape plugin adjusts normals in a user selected area to give the mesh a smooth appearance. It does not affect unselected areas. It handles mesh seams correctly. It will not weld vertices. It will not change or break your UV map. See example. note Feb 19, 2009: Due to a dumb oversight on my part, this current version acts like demon's Align Normals. The next planned version of the Normal Smoother, not yet released, will have more features however. It will optionally preserve sharp creases and it will be aware of smoothing groups.. INSTALLATION Unzip it and put it in your MilkShape folder. You will have a new option in the Vertex menu called Cat's Normal Smoother. SHARP CREASES? This plugin does not preserve sharp creases, it makes things look smooth. Another version is planned which will preserve sharp creases above a user specified feature angle and will be aware of smoothing groups. It'll be released whenever it's ready, don't ask.  EXAMPLE     In the thumbnails, you can see what happens with Smooth All and smoothing groups (but no welding because that breaks the UV map). I'm not criticizing it, just saying it has limitations which motivated the creation of this new tool. Thanks Thanks to Wes Howe for answering my questions about the MilkShape SDK. Thanks to the creators of MilkShape and the MilkShape SDK. |
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Last edited by CatOfEvilGenius : 19th Feb 2009 at 11:22 PM.
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8th Nov 2008, 05:41 PM
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Menaceman44
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Join Date: Mar 2005 |
Thanks Cat! I can see this as being most useful. Would have been nice on past meshing projects of mine. At least I wont have to worry in the future. |
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19th Feb 2009, 10:04 AM
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suceress
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I don't know why I didn't find this plugin before. Cat, you are my hero! Thank you! |
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19th Feb 2009, 12:53 PM
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james123
Test Subject
Join Date: Feb 2009 |
hi i downloaded this and copied all the files to the milk shape instalation folder but they wont show on the import menu in milkshape. im using milkshape v 1.7.0 if it matters please help. |
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19th Feb 2009, 01:31 PM
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Menaceman44
Alchemist
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
This isn't supposed to show under the Import menu option. You import yor mesh as regular and then use this plugin from the Vertex menu. Cat did point this out in her first post. |
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19th Feb 2009, 01:55 PM
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Aligeth
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Is this different from my "Align Normals" option that I have in Milkshape? |
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19th Feb 2009, 11:18 PM
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CatOfEvilGenius
Original Poster
Not actually evil.
Join Date: Oct 2006 |
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Damn, oversight on my part, hadn't noticed Align Normals worked on regions, not just individual vertex pairs. The current version of the Normal Smoother works like demon's Align Normals. However, the next planned version will have features that Align Normals does not. It will optionally preserve sharp creases rather than smoothing them, and it will be aware of smoothing groups. | |
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27th Feb 2009, 01:41 PM
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Aligeth
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Awesome, looking forward to it! |
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26th Apr 2009, 02:28 PM
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TheJim07
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You saved me, thank you
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30th Jul 2009, 09:05 AM
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Beo
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Thanks!!! |
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Russian. My english is not well. |
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27th Aug 2009, 05:57 PM
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Inge Jones
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How come you guys have an "align normals" option in Milkshape? I can't find it! |
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simlogical Please do not PM me with questions about modding. Please post in an appropriate forum and send me a link to the thread if you would like me to try and help. |
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28th Aug 2009, 02:34 AM
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CatOfEvilGenius
Original Poster
Not actually evil.
Join Date: Oct 2006 |
Inge - Align Normals is a plugin that demon made, it is in the Tools subforum (this subforum). He also made Extended Manual Edit, which I can't live without. demon's plugins (if you have time and inclination, there's a thread at MATY with a question about your AL mods) |
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28th Aug 2009, 07:04 AM
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Inge Jones
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It's not a case of time or inclination, I can't even remember enough details to reply and I don't have sims2 installed any more. Whatever I wrote at the time would have been true though. |
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simlogical Please do not PM me with questions about modding. Please post in an appropriate forum and send me a link to the thread if you would like me to try and help. |
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2nd Feb 2010, 02:49 AM
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whitewaterwood
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Ooooh! Thank you so much! I cannot tell you how useful this will be! |
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Nintendork Island | Please call me WWW!| Despite what avatar says, loves all of mts <3
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8th Mar 2010, 04:16 PM
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telefen
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Thank you very much. I think this will help a lot. |
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2nd Jun 2011, 12:59 PM
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JosephTheSim2k5
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Thank you so much! This has proved useful today! THANKS 
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30th Oct 2011, 02:20 PM
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KindGenius
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Mar 2011 |
Thanks Cat!Now I don't need to worry about those horrible seams that appear on some models after smoothing!
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25th Apr 2012, 12:04 PM
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I tried to download but could not
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Resourceful
Test Subject
Join Date: Apr 2012 |
this looks like One I could use but when I tried it said I did not have permission on the mts site to download from them |
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