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ouch... just saw the original shape before the subdivision... that technique is way easier and faster than editing an high-poly with the magnet script! Oh well...

Well done, and thanks again for sharing. You opened my eyes on the real power of subdivisions.

Heck... the textures too? I thought that would have been asking too much, but that's the spirit of the community, thanks a lot benzjie.

That's too kind of you benzjie, would you attach it to a post here so that all the community can take advantage of?

I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one to download it, your model is neatly designed and the texture is perfect... ehehehe, "with real artificial eggs", btw I'd like to read the fine print of the ingredients!

Thanks a lot for sharing dude.

I've updated the package above adding some Magnet scripts and two Align scripts. Here below you can see the render of a wood, where the trees have been fit on the terrain using the Align Mesh script.

Really a nice character, Modeler, I do agree with Headwax that the shoes could have smaller points, but that could be fine if you want to give it a funny look.

Hey thanks for pointing out that tutorial headwax, just had a look and seems very very good, I needed something like this, I owe you a drink!

[ Last Package Update: 2008, Nov. 20th ]

Well, I think that after releasing this package I could take a break from ASL and dedicate my time to learn modelling, I severely need it.

Sorry for opening another topic, but once again I made quite some changes to the scripts, filenaming included, so I decided to post them separately, to avoid any confusion.

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The attached zip contains the following files:
     1 - Magnet Sphere.a8s
     2 - Magnet Sphere Autodivide.a8s
     3 - Magnet Cube.a8s
     4 - Magnet Mesh.a8s
     5 - Magnet Mesh Autodivide.a8s
     6 - Magnet Mesh World.a8s
     7 - Magnet Mesh + Origin.a8s
     8 - Magnet Mesh + Range.a8s
     9 - Align Cube.a8s
    10 - Align Mesh.a8s
     i - Magnet Tools readme.txt

All the scripts share the same "mag", "mag-xy" etc naming convention.
Align scripts use "ali" instead of "mag".

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Some details:

Magnet Sphere.a8s
Magnet Sphere Autodivide.a8s
-- The original spherical magnet, with separate push/pull modes, the second
version subdivides the faces of mesh01 as you enlarge them.

Magnet Cube.a8s
-- The same of the Magnet Sphere, but here you use a cube converted to mesh.
You can n-scale the cube like a plane and use this script to flatten some faces on a mesh. You can also n-scale the cube as a pillar and use it to align some points on a line. Alignments are best done in pull mode, using one axis (to flatten points on a plane) or two axes (to align points on a line).

Align Cube.a8s
--- Same results of the Magnet Cube script except that this one aligns entire meshes by their origins. Align scripts use "ali" instead of "mag".

Both Cube scripts differ from all the others because the changes are made on the cube axes and not on the world coordinates.

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These replace the "polimagnet" script:

Magnet Mesh.a8s
-- Checks if the points of mesh01 fall between the magnet's origin and the magnet's faces.

Magnet Mesh Autodivide.a8s
-- Same as above but subdividing "mesh01" in the same way of the Magnet Sphere Autodivide script.

Align Mesh.a8s
-- Same results of the Magnet Mesh but this time moving entire meshes by their origins. I tried it to align a wood of trees on top of a terrain, you can see the picture in the second post of this thread. Align scripts use "ali" instead of "mag".

Magnet Mesh World.a8s
-- Checks if the points of mesh01 fall between the world's origin and the magnet's faces.

Magnet Mesh + Origin.a8s
-- Checks if the points of mesh01 fall between the center of a sphere named "origin" and the magnet's faces.

Magnet Mesh + Range.a8s
-- Checks if the points of mesh01 fall between the center of a sphere named "range" and the magnet's faces, but only points and faces falling into that range sphere are considered.

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Magnet Tools readme.txt
-- Contains all the instructions to run the scripts.

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For the people who is seeing these scripts for the first time, you can take a look to their evolution in this thread:
Old Magnet Tool

There you can find some other ideas which have been implemented on the road but which have been left out in this release. The old, buggy and slow scripts are still there, if you care to know.

Also, that thread contains some examples of what can be done with these scripts.

I hope you'll find this package useful, I look forward to read your comments and critics, as well as to see some snapshot of the works you will eventually make using these tools.

Thank you for your attention, wish you lots of fun with Anim8or.

I'd like to see such feature added, it takes no time to be coded in and can be useful to get an idea about the total render time. Of course it would be an estimate projection, scanlines are different from each other, and the same is for each frame, but I would make it so that if you are rendering a single image you get the average time per scanline and the estimate for the whole image, and if you are rendering a movie, you get the average per frame and the estimate for the whole movie.

Cool... I didn't know that the tools' panel could be scrolled just like the materials' panel... that's a really good thing to know if you need to work on a small Anim8or window. Thanks for pointing this out hihosilver.

About rellik's problem, since maybe this technique could be unavailable (it works only if the window is resized, and after relliks words seems like the window can't be resized) I suggest to use keyboard shortcuts - that would make also your anim8ing faster.