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Dmitry K

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Posted: 27th Sep 2004 22:53 Edited at: 5th Jun 2009 22:47

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EDIT
Updated for U7.4 05/06/09
Updated for U7.2 13/03/09
Updated for U6.9 28/06/08
Updated for U6.2b 12/07/06
Updated for U5.9 15/12/05
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Free TPC DLLs DKSHOP & DKAVM U7.4: https://forumfiles.thegamecreators.com/download/1771664

Free TPC DLLs DKSHOP & DKAVM U7.2: https://forumfiles.thegamecreators.com/download/150066

Free TPC DLLs DKSHOP & DKAVM U6.9: http://forumfiles.thegamecreators.com/?i=1532575

Free TPC DLLs DKSHOP & DKAVM U6.2b: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=406855

Free TPC DLLs DKSHOP & DKAVM U5.9: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/xt/xt_apollo_download.php?i=400955

DKSHOP COMMAND LIST.

BASIC3D COMMANDS

Return Float = DK INTERSECT LIMB( Object Number, Limb Number, X, Y, Z, ToX, ToY, ToZ ) 
Return Integer = DK PICK LIMB( Camera Number, X, Y, Object Number, Limb Start, Limb End )

SYSTEM COMMANDS

Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR X() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR Y() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR Z() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK DISTANCE() 
Return Integer = DK GET PICK POLY()

CAMERA COMMANDS

Return Float=DK GET CAMERA FOV( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA NEAR( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA FAR( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA VIEW X( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA VIEW Y( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA WIDTH( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA HEIGHT( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA ASPECT( Camera ) 
DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, X Value, Y Value, Z Value
DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, Vector3Source
DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D Camera Number, Screen X, Screen Y, Distance

MATRIX COMMANDS

Return Float = DK INTERSECT MATRIX( Matrix Number, X, Y, Z, ToX, ToY, ToZ )
Return Integer = DK PICK MATRIX( Camera Number, X, Y, Matrix Start, Matrix End )

3DMATHS COMMANDS
Return Float = DK GET MATRIX4 ELEMENT( Matrix4Source, Element Index ) 
DK SET MATRIX4 ELEMENT Matrix4Result, Element Index, Value 
DK SET PROJECTION MATRIX4 Camera Number, Matrix4Source

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BASIC3D COMMANDS

Return Float = DK INTERSECT LIMB( Object Number, Limb Number, X, Y, Z, ToX, ToY, ToZ ) 
Return Integer = DK PICK LIMB( Camera Number, X, Y, Object Number, Limb Start, Limb End ) 


SYSTEM COMMANDS

Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR X() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR Y() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK VECTOR Z() 
Return Float = DK GET PICK DISTANCE() 
Return Integer = DK GET PICK POLY() 


CAMERA COMMANDS

Return Float=DK GET CAMERA FOV( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA NEAR( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA FAR( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA VIEW X( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA VIEW Y( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA WIDTH( Camera ) 
Return Integer=DK GET CAMERA HEIGHT( Camera ) 
Return Float=DK GET CAMERA ASPECT( Camera ) 
DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, X Value, Y Value, Z Value
DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, Vector3Source
DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D Camera Number, Screen X, Screen Y, Distance 


MATRIX COMMANDS

Return Float = DK INTERSECT MATRIX( Matrix Number, X, Y, Z, ToX, ToY, ToZ )
Return Integer = DK PICK MATRIX( Camera Number, X, Y, Matrix Start, Matrix End ) 


3DMATHS COMMANDS
Return Float = DK GET MATRIX4 ELEMENT( Matrix4Source, Element Index ) 
DK SET MATRIX4 ELEMENT Matrix4Result, Element Index, Value 
DK SET PROJECTION MATRIX4 Camera Number, Matrix4Source

DKAVM COMMAND LIST.

Return Integer = DK GET LIMB VERTEX COUNT( Object Number, Limb Number )
DK CONVERT LIMB MESH TO VERTS LIST Object Number, Limb Number 
DK LIMB MATRIX4 Matrix4Result, Object Number, Limb Number 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB PRIMITIVE TYPE( Object Number, Limb Number )
Return Integer = DK LIMB SHARED VERTS( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION X( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION Y( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION Z( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
DK SET VECTOR3 TO VERTEX POSITION Vector3Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number 
DK SET VERTEX POSITION Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, X, Y, Z 
DK SET VERTEX POSITION Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector3Source
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS X( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS Y( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS Z( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
DK SET VECTOR3 TO VERTEX NORMALS Vector3Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX DIFFUSE( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX U( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX V( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage )  
DK SET VECTOR2 TO VERTEX UV Vector2Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage 
DK SET VERTEX NORMALS Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, X, Y, Z 
DK SET VERTEX NORMALS Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector3Source 
DK SET VERTEX DIFFUSE Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Diffuse Value 
DK SET VERTEX UV Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, U Value, V Value 
DK SET VERTEX UV Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector2Source
DK CALCULATE LIMB BOUNDS Object Number, Limb Number 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB COUNT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FVF( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT WIREFRAME( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT CULL( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT LIGHT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT AMBIENT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FOG( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT GHOST( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT WIREFRAME( Object Number, Limb Number )  
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT CULL( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT LIGHT( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT AMBIENT( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FOG( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT GHOST( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB FVF( Object Number, Limb Number )

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Return Integer = DK GET LIMB VERTEX COUNT( Object Number, Limb Number )
DK CONVERT LIMB MESH TO VERTS LIST Object Number, Limb Number 
DK LIMB MATRIX4 Matrix4Result, Object Number, Limb Number 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB PRIMITIVE TYPE( Object Number, Limb Number )
Return Integer = DK LIMB SHARED VERTS( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION X( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION Y( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX POSITION Z( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
DK SET VECTOR3 TO VERTEX POSITION Vector3Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number 
DK SET VERTEX POSITION Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, X, Y, Z 
DK SET VERTEX POSITION Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector3Source
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS X( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS Y( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX NORMALS Z( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number )  
DK SET VECTOR3 TO VERTEX NORMALS Vector3Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX DIFFUSE( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX U( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage ) 
Return Float = DK GET VERTEX V( Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage )  
DK SET VECTOR2 TO VERTEX UV Vector2Result, Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, TextureStage 
DK SET VERTEX NORMALS Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, X, Y, Z 
DK SET VERTEX NORMALS Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector3Source 
DK SET VERTEX DIFFUSE Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Diffuse Value 
DK SET VERTEX UV Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, U Value, V Value 
DK SET VERTEX UV Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number, Vector2Source
DK CALCULATE LIMB BOUNDS Object Number, Limb Number 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB COUNT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FVF( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT WIREFRAME( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT CULL( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT LIGHT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT AMBIENT( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FOG( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT GHOST( Object Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT WIREFRAME( Object Number, Limb Number )  
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT CULL( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT LIGHT( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT AMBIENT( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT FOG( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET OBJECT GHOST( Object Number, Limb Number ) 
Return Integer = DK GET LIMB FVF( Object Number, Limb Number )

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Posted: 27th Sep 2004 23:31 Edited at: 27th Sep 2004 23:36

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Dmitry,
Your english is great ( better than most of the english speaking people around here

).

And I must say, you are one hell of a genius

These commands will be extremely helpfull for alot of people I know ( including myself

).

On behalf of those who may not see the thread, I thank you

[EDIT]
Works much like the hidden commands that I hacked out in the older versions of DBP, so my old code should be simple to port

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Dmitry K,
You english is incredible!

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@Dmitry K,

You star!

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Quote: "DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D Camera Number, X, Y, Distance"

hehe...i love you

this is possible with vectors...ect but it's a little bit of a mess

(but not that way)

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Quote: "Quote: "DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D Camera Number, X, Y, Distance"
hehe...i love you"

Pick Screen()

Nice job Dmitry - especially the vertex manipulation commands.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 19:27 Edited at: 21st Oct 2006 23:51

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Thanks all

Quote: "
Quote: "Quote: "DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D Camera Number, X, Y, Distance"
hehe...i love you"

Pick Screen() "

Pick Screen does not work with multiple cameras and scaled viewports.

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Thanks Jess for pointing me to this thread, and Thanks Dmitry K for finally getting the vertex manipulation commands available to the later versions of DBP.

I would like you to contact me for some information, so I can accredit you for this plugin in my program. As well as establish some coorispondance on features you may be able to help me out with. Email :: Pheonixx1980@hotmail.com

Again, thanks

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Posted: 12th Oct 2004 06:00 Edited at: 10th Nov 2004 02:48

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DKShop was recompiled to work with u5.7

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Interesting DLL here Dmitry.

I have a question: although this DLL is described as being free is it in fact time limited? Or are there two different versions of the DLL: a free one and an improved shareware version with additional commands?

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Or are there two different versions of the DLL: a free one and an improved shareware version with additional commands?
"

Yes, indeed. There will be two versions of this library. The free version of library contains:
Low-level vertex manupulation;(These commands are built-in in DBPro by developers)
Acces to some object and camera properties;
3D to 2D conversation and vice versa.

Shareware version will be contains:
Matrix intersection commands(which will be return picked poly and its normals);
Object intersection commands(which will be return picked poly(limb) and its normals);
3DSprite object commands;
and maybe more...

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Ok great.

I've just downloaded the *.dll and the *.ini file from the first link you posted at the top of this thread.

Is that the freeware or the shareware version of the DLL?

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Great Dll

Suggestions for future commands: Vertex Scale. DBPro's scale command doesn't actually scale an object (Which you may have noticed), however, with your dll I was able to easily write a function to scale an object, including it's limb's, with a flag to porportionally scale the limbs (So they stay in the same place, relative to the parent object).

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Bug: VB SET VERTEX DATA UV is set to look for an object, not a vertex.

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where is the plugin with the 3d sprite commands

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nice dll thx

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Unfortunatly, the samples for the 3d commands crashed for me

(Win98SE), I'll post more info when I get a sec.

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Suggestions for future commands: Vertex Scale. DBPro's scale command doesn't actually scale an object (Which you may have noticed), however, with your dll I was able to easily write a function to scale an object, including it's limb's, with a flag to porportionally scale the limbs (So they stay in the same place, relative to the parent object).
"

APPLY MATRIX4 TO LIMB will do it. With this command it will be easy to rotate, scale and translate the mesh vertex data.

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Bug: VB SET VERTEX DATA UV is set to look for an object, not a vertex.
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Fixed.

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where is the plugin with the 3d sprite commands
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In forthcoming shareware version. I am working on it now.

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Unfortunatly, the samples for the 3d commands crashed for me (Win98SE), I'll post more info when I get a sec.
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Hmm. Maybe Win98 problem. Try new fixed version.

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Thanks.

How do DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D and DK CONVERT 2D TO 3D work?

Cheese!

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Quote: " Try new fixed version."

Hi, will do -

Is the link at the top of this thread the latest available (freeware) version (i.e. new fixed version)?

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Is the link at the top of this thread the latest available (freeware) version (i.e. new fixed version)?
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Yes.

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Fantastic... demo's worked a treat. Any tips on how I could apply these commands to a 'pick limb' function?

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p.s. any idea when the shareware version will be available?

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I've already got a polygon collision engine and a terrain editor that uses these commands now, very useful.

What's up with the VB SET VERTEX DATA DIFFUSE command? The colors come out all wrong.

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I'm confused as to how the DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, X, Y, Z command works. How do you extract from this command the X and Y coordinates of the 2D result?

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I'm confused as to how the DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, X, Y, Z command works. How do you extract from this command the X and Y coordinates of the 2D result?
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See help file for Camera3D commands in attachment.

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Thanks Dmitry. You are a star, sir!

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Thanks.

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hey does DK GET VERTEX POSITION Y(Object Number, Limb Number, Vertex Number)
only get the start x position?
i want to keep the x position printed of one vertex..of my animated model..

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Why don't you test it and find out?

Whip up a quick app to see what it returns while an animation is playing, and you can see if it changes.

Give it a try

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@DmitryK

I'm afraid the command DK CONVERT 3D TO 2D Camera Number, X, Y, Z crashes on my computer at compile time. No error is returned. My specification of computer is below. In terms of DBPro, I'm running v5.7 with BlueIDE.

See attached for a code snippet which causes the crash. If I rem out the DK convert line it works fine.

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DmitryK just fixed this.

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I know it's been a few weeks since anyone posted here, but I've got a problem, I've installed the plugin and it works great. But the compiler always stops on the:

dk set vertex normals

command, I tried copying and pasting the command from the text file listing all the commands but it says it couldn't understand the command.

I haven't played around with all the functions yet, but this is frustrating, since not being able to change the normals makes my intentions for mesh-deformation useless. However, I haven't played with the vertex buffer yet.

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Posted: 30th Jan 2005 14:23

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Fixed.

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No messing around then, DK?

Thanks for that.

[edit] I do have a question, is this plugin royalty free?

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I've found another problem, not sure what can be done about this, after modifying the vertex data of an object the bounding boxes are still the same.

Is there any way to modify the bounding data for an object?

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Posted: 1st Feb 2005 18:38 Edited at: 1st Feb 2005 18:52

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What exactly does DK CALCULATE POLY NORMALS do? Just by the looks of the code, it seems to update the normals so that the model will be effected by lights correctly after a vertex position has changed. This is not happening with my models, so I guess not. Does anyone know how I can update the normals so that my models will light properly after modifing the position of vertices?

...It seems that I'm not able to to set the first parameter of the function (Object Number) as show on the cammand list above. Is this a bug?

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Posted: 11th Feb 2005 04:08

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What's up with the VB SET VERTEX DATA DIFFUSE command? The colors come out all wrong.
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Fixed. See example in attachment.

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Is there any way to modify the bounding data for an object?
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Added two new commands DK CALCULATE OBJECT BOUNDS, DK CALCULATE LIMB BOUNDS

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What exactly does DK CALCULATE POLY NORMALS do?
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This command calculates the normal vector for any face given three points in clockwise order.

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...It seems that I'm not able to to set the first parameter of the function (Object Number) as show on the cammand list above. Is this a bug?
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Oops, my mistake. Correct syntax:
DK CALCULATE POLY NORMALS Point1 X, Point1 Y, Point1 Z, Point2 X, Point2 Y, Point2 Z, Point3 X, Point3 Y, Point3 Z

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Posted: 11th Feb 2005 07:23

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Quote: "Added two new commands DK CALCULATE OBJECT BOUNDS, DK CALCULATE LIMB BOUNDS"

Thanks for that, although the truth is that's the one thing I was hoping you wouldn't do. The reason is because I'm going to be looping through every vertex in the entire object every frame, so if I knew what was needed for the object bounding data I could calculate it myself while manipulating the mesh, the program would be able to run much faster, in theory. I was thinking something along the lines of commands like:

set object bounds
set limb bounds

If you could add those two commands with some info on how to calculate the bounds myself (I'm assuming it's quite simple), I'd really appreciate it! I'm just slightly paranoid that having the plugin calculate the bounds for my after I've modified the mesh, it'd drastically reduce the number of vertices I can manipulate per frame.

Great work so far DK, this has become a must-have plugin for me!

Thanks!

PS: You may have missed my other question, is this plugin royalty free?

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Posted: 11th Mar 2005 04:47

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Hey there, great plugin ive just started work with it and i was wondering...
As i understand it to get realistic shadows on objects you have set normal values for each vertex, and that i can use your command to find the normal of a face. Now i also hear that the normal ofa vertex has to be the average of the surrounding faces, is this correct and is there an easy way to do it, or is it just a case of sorting it in an array?
Thanks

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Hello,

The plugin don't works with the U5.8 patch ... I hope tou can do something

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@DmitryK,

I second that... .pls pls can you get your plugin working with u5.8 - would be invaluable....

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Posted: 13th Apr 2005 12:59

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Why do you need it to work in 5.8? Vert manipulating commands were added with the patch.

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...I was thinking the exact same thing

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The plugin has a two very useful commands:

convert 2d to 3d
convert 3d to 2d

basically, world co-ords to screen co-ords and back again.

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Dmitry K
I would like you to add symetrical vertex movement if it can be done for a character? also primitives?

Be good for making crowds of persons out of just one character.

This would be good to load in a character and then use it to "manufacture characters that look sort of like it, but get changed quite a bit depending on random amoount and range set by user for x, y, z or all 3 axis by user.
Then save them back out to the drive.

Things it would be good for in primitives:
Make random planets. (maybe 4 way symetrical for this)
2 way reflected. (good for making a deformed primitive that can be used as a head, or ?)

I would like it If the user could add a ranom amount, like add rnd(20)-rnd(20) to his choice of x, y or z axis of a vertex, and also adjust the vertex that is the one that would be symetrical to this vertex, and allow the user to pick different types of symetry, like 2 way, 4 way, do we need any more?

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D.K.
Guess we need 2 way horizontal and 2 way vertical and 4 way for the options on symetrical vertex movement, but any other neat effects would be fantastic.

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