v9.0 -- mcjBuilderA - script to build anything in Daz Studio - updated sept. 16 2017

V3Digitimes

I'm just discovering this post!
It reminds me of the "goto" I learnt when I was a child. It seems very funny!

mCasual

Kadix said:

I'm just discovering this post!
It reminds me of the "goto" I learnt when I was a child. It seems very funny!

must be the "turtle graphics" part of the LoGo language

i didnt know they actually were controlling a robot turtle with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

mCasual

radius 0
turn 360

.... and .... that's called a lathe !

so i create this path curve using mcjBuilder
and i export it as an .obj, ..... in the profiles folder

i also save it as a path curve

hardturn -90
Move 3
hardturn 90
Move 3
Radius 4
turn 45
radius .05
turn -90
Radius 1
Turn 90
radius .05
turn -90
Radius 2
Turn 45
Move 4
Turn 45
radius .05
turn -90
Radius 1
Turn 90
radius .05
turn -90
Radius 4
turn 45
Move 3
radius .05
turn 90
Move 3
Ring

i close mcjBuilder and re-open it, so that it can "see" my new extrusion profile

i select the column profile

i create this path ... which should give us a lathe behavior

Radius 0.0001
turn 360

and it worked !!

the step Angle was 22.5 degrees so it's a bit rough

there you have it, all done in the confines of Daz Studio!

you could obtain something similar using mcjSuperLathe or mcjJathe
except the profile would be splines instead of circle arcs

V3Digitimes

Casual said:

Kadix said:

I'm just discovering this post!
It reminds me of the "goto" I learnt when I was a child. It seems very funny!

must be the "turtle graphics" part of the LoGo language

i didnt know they actually were controlling a robot turtle with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

When I was told that LoGo was powerful I did not believe it. Maybe now I can change my mind ;)

mCasual

Kadix said:

Casual said:

Kadix said:

I'm just discovering this post!
It reminds me of the "goto" I learnt when I was a child. It seems very funny!

must be the "turtle graphics" part of the LoGo language

i didnt know they actually were controlling a robot turtle with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

When I was told that LoGo was powerful I did not believe it. Maybe now I can change my mind ;)

by the way you can try LoGo online right here http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/#

if you copy and paste

TO square :length
  repeat 4 [ fd :length rt 90 ]
END
clearscreen
repeat 36 [ square 50 rt 10 ]

if draws a star

the "TO Square: length" statement means
"if someone mentions the word "square" and a number
then, lets call this number "length" and do the following ...."
the word "END" puts an end to the definition of what it means to "square"

repeat 4 [action] means repeatedly do the bracketed action
fd :length means : move forward "length" number of pixels
rt 90 means : turn right 90 degrees

i may add a "repeat" command to mcjBuilder

mCasual

making a wrought iron scroll using mcjBuilder and the Fibonacci sequence (1) 1 2 3 5 8

mCasual

that's at the “Mardan Palace Hotel , a crazily expensive big hotel i gather

mCasual

uh hum
( but it does show i was able to fix slight problems with the "turn" command )

RAMWolff

HAHAHA.... That's cute!

mCasual

RAMWolff said:

HAHAHA.... That's cute!

this spring scroll hairstyle

unless it's called ionic

RAMWolff

hahahaha.. *FALLS OVER*

mCasual

See the sort'of visor-tube? there's upward arcs of circles ... next version of mcjBuilder
it should be very versatile so you can bend the mouldings anyway you want, which will include twists/screws/coils

Miss B

Casual said:

RAMWolff said:

HAHAHA.... That's cute!

this spring scroll hairstyle

unless it's called ionic
~ROFLMAO~

Seriously though, that would make a great top to a column, as your third image shows.

mCasual

the turnUp action .... next version soon

there'will also be the "Update" button

lets say you created a custom extrusion path
and you built an object called "tubularBell.obj"
you loaded it in the scene using the "load" button

but the result is not exactly what you wanted

normally you'd
save your custom extrusion path
close mcjBuilder"
delete the object from the scene
re-start mcjBuilder
tweak your path
press the build button
press the load button

but now you'll just have to do:

tweak your path
press the update button

the script will delete the old version if it's in the scene
build the new one and save it over the old version
load the new version in the scene

calli WYSIWYGBYHTPAB which means ""what you see is what you get but you have to press a button"

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fig 3 problem adding the "twist" movement

fig 3. twist ...works ( quaternions may have to be used )

fig 4 now i get it ! the extrusion nozzle faces forth, the twist axis also faces forth

figure 5 there you go - turn means "turnY" means turn around the Y Axis. Slope means, .... and move along the Y axis by this much

mCasual

implementing the Turn + Slope effect for all 3 axis

radius 2
slope 30
turnUp 3600

and you know what else one could do?
parent the null-node that transports the extrusion profile
to an animated node

and what would you get?

a coiled guitar cord

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figure 2 .... oops actually as it is presently it wont work ( but it will )

1920 faces, hexagon profile, 14400/45 = 320 little tubes

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fig 3 .. it now works but there's a shear effect and the parent node cant really steer the extruder

fig 4 - Scale effects using a parent node trick

fig 4: tada ! i set "slope to 0 so the parent node is the sole control for the extruding nozzle position and heading - mcjBuilder is what spins the nozzle to give us the coiling - note that mcjCycleFilter was useful for regularizing the parent node animation

mCasual

i'll probably post that object on my site

atticanne

Curly phone cords and water hoses are great to have.

mCasual

AtticAnne said:

Curly phone cords and water hoses are great to have.

note that mcjTransport and before that mcjRibbons could be used to do spiral cords and cables

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/7278/

mCasual

the upcoming version will have a setScale, setScaleX setScaleY, setScaleZ command

mCasual

the next version will also have a simple repeat command

only 1 level, meaning you cant have a repeat within a repeat ( for now )

fig 2 uses the fuzzy wuzzy shader by Marianne
http://www.sharecg.com/v/36638/View/6/Texture/Fuzzy-Wuzzy-Fur-Shader-Daz|Studio

mCasual

.... and the next version will include the "define" command

which lets you give a name to a block of commands

for example here i defined something called a Bob

which creates a B shape

once it's defined

i just have to issue the command : Bob

define Bob
ring
Move 1
radius 3
turn 180
Move 1
radius 1
turn 180
Move 1
radius 3
turn 180
Move 1
radius 1
turn 90
Move 8
turn 90
Move 5
Ring
defineEnd

repeat 5
Bob
repeatEnd

figure 2 - using the superShine shader by Marianne
http://www.sharecg.com/v/31573/Material-and-Shader/Super-Shine-Shader

so as we speak the available commands will be

repeat
repeatend

define
defineend

slope 

radius

rotatex
rotatez
rotatey

setanglex
setangley
setanglez

setscalex
setscaley
setscalez
setscale

ring

hardturn

turnup / turnx
turn / turny
twist / turnz

movex
movey
move / movez

moveto

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the define command will also accept a named parameter

example

define Bob n
ring
Move n
ring
defineEnd

Bob 3

mCasual

i digress but mcjBuilderA can be used to animate nodes which can then be used by mcjAutoLimb to create foot targets
(walk inspired by seeing "Happy Wheels" gameplay )

mCasual

braids !

you can already do braids using the current version

but here i used the upcoming "define" and "repeat" commands

figure 2 - without SubDivision and texture/displacement

figure 3 - you have 1 day to moddel that hairdo ... kidding :)

mCasual

possibility that i'll post the version i have today!

RAMWolff

Awesome works Casual. Been busy setting up Chrome and finding my threads to subscribe. Have a great day. Hoppity hop hop hop

Miss B

Ohhhhh, I hadn't realized you can do braids with it. That's going to be sooooo kewl. :coolsmile:

zawarkal

I have been trying to use the example where you created a path and then lathed it using the radius 0.0005 and turn 360 commands
I cannot get this to work and I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing
Would it possible to get a step by step of how to achieve this?

mCasual

Zawarkal said:

I have been trying to use the example where you created a path and then lathed it using the radius 0.0005 and turn 360 commands
I cannot get this to work and I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing
Would it possible to get a step by step of how to achieve this?

in this first version, it's important to use only the Tab character to separate the words and the numbers

so

turn[TAB]360

works
but

turn[Space]360

does not

in the next reply i'll do the step-by-step test ,
my recent examples were done using the upcoming version
but the "turn" command did exist in the version you have i'm pretty sure .... to be continued

mCasual

Zawarkal said:

I have been trying to use the example where you created a path and then lathed it using the radius 0.0005 and turn 360 commands
I cannot get this to work and I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing
Would it possible to get a step by step of how to achieve this?

step by step test

i start the mcjBuilderA ( version dated 14 April 2014 )

i click on the "defaults" button

so the program returns to its factory settings

i delete everything in the text area

i type

turn[TAB]360

i click on the "Build"" button

after 2 seconds the program asks me a location and file name for the .obj file

i put mine in i:\aoa\mesh.obj

now the object i built is on disk

i click on mcjBuilder's "Load" button

i look in daz studio's scene tab and i find a new node named mesh0

i zoom to it

it's quite small, below you can see it near a sugar cube

the default extrusion profile was a circle
and the default radius was 1
so we get a torus/donut

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second test

in the drop-down list i select the profile named

"classic_cymaRecta11"

the extrusion path script is still

turn[Tab]360

but i changed mcjBuilder's initial radius to 0

i click on the mcjBuilder's "Build"" button

i put in again as i:\aoa\mesh.obj

i click on mcjBuilder's "Load" button

and we obtain a lathe

note that in the profile preview plot, the red cross
indicates the location of the (0,0,0) origin - so the revolution is centered right there

mCasual

next version will allow the creation of multi-part models

example,
you extrude 4 square tubes
that's the table legs
change the extrusion nozzle for a bar-edge shape
extrude a table edge
add a cap
and you got a good looking table