Update ! mcjWindowWall - Hyper-versatile Window-Wall prop ( tons o' stretch morphs )

mCasual

over here at the bottom in the attachments section, click on the little blue down-arrow on the right

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwindowwall2

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HISTORY

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December 25 2015 3h24am - Update: added 3 missing stretch morphs - made the default Scale 100% when resetting the prop
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it will fit with the mcjWallDoor unit ( shown here )

and include a plethora of morphs and distinct materials

you'll be able to resize everything

i think i'll add something special, a morph that hides some parts of it by resizing those parts to nothing

mCasual

more the-making-of renders

unfortunately i made the mcjWallDoor unit a bizarre default width
but the mcjWindowWall will ab uh what's the word ... abut with it using the simple offset 300 cm

teriperkins_bfd4324187

This is going to be awesome! Thanks. I'll eagerly await its arrival.

mCasual

Teri 2 said:

This is going to be awesome! Thanks. I'll eagerly await its arrival.

early Saturday i think

then i get back to midi-music animation
then kinect motion capture
etc etc etc :)

in the picture below:

even if the wall and window is stretched in 100 ways,
you'll be able to put patterned wallpaper or bricks or marble or wood

fig 3 with a bump map

fig 4 DigiDotz's marble was not lost on me ( oh my that pun hurts )

mCasual

fig 1 and 2

excellent texturizingabilitating:

each piece of wood will be UV mapped using the free script mcjBoxUV

the name of the material for the piece of wood describes the unfolded size in centimeters ( will be in millimeters )

jpg images with those dimensions ( 1024 pixels width or height ) will be bundled with the prop

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note : the prop, wall included is a modest 3000 faces!

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fig 3

textures completed - actually the texture images now all have the same dpi

so if you want, in your photoshop, you load a big 3kx3k texture of wood

and you paste it without resizing to each one of the ... let me see ... 17 jpg images

and your window looks like wood from the same tree

teriperkins_bfd4324187

This is going to be so handy. Thank you very much!

mCasual

Teri 2 said:

This is going to be so handy. Thank you very much!

i may make a 1-window version and a 3-window version also

mCasual

adding stretch morphs ...

mCasual

it aaaalmost ready

i have to solve the issues with the glass planes which i should not have split , i knew it , i knew it , i knew it ;)

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fig 2, solved (wrote a script that excludes vertices with certain materials from a morph )

which means, i only have a few window-thicken morphs to add and it's all done !!!!!

oops no, them glass edges cause problems elsewhere .... got to "sideline" them

well actually, since it will rarely matter i'll add a band-aid morph for those 4 vertical glass edges

mCasual

over here at the bottom in the attachments section, click on the little blue down-arrow on the right

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwindowwall2

if you cant get the zip

then use this direct link

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwalldoor/mcjWallDoor.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

it's 3 megs, most of it in the jpeg wood textures

the prop geometry itself is lightweight

the morphs though numerous are probably not heavy on the cpu

scatha

Cool, tnx, will be very useful

mCasual

i forgot to change the position of the origin of the windows

i'll post a new version soon

but for today you could load the prop
and run this script
which moves the origin ( and center of rotation ) of the two window props

var node;
node = Scene.findNode( "RightWindow" );
if( node )
 node.setOrigin( 91.274, 131.493, 6.073 );
node = Scene.findNode( "LeftWindow" );
if( node )
 node.setOrigin( -91.281, 131.493, 6.073 );

here's a direct link to that script moveMcjWindowWallWindowOrigins.dsa
moveMcjWindowWallWindowOrigins.dsa

mCasual

for Wall crowns and baseboards you dont want to miss the big pack of mouldings
found right here https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/straightmoldspack

to help you re-adjust the wallpaper texture tiling after a wall stretching operation you can use the ABCD image posted below, you tweak UV tiling until you get square .... squares then you apply your real wallpaper

if you want pixel-perfect wallpapers on stretched windowwalls

then you can select the wall part of the prop

run mcjBoxUV

delete the wall

load the wall that mcjBoxUV created at your request

the wall is now excessively easy to texture

in figure 4 you can see that the 3DViewport lies !!! when it comes time to show how UV tiling will be software-rendered
( at leas in DS3 )

the wall on the left went through the mcjBoxUV re-UV-Mapping process and is therefore perfect :)

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/36930/

ThatGuy

This is awesome. I was looking at this thread last night and wondered if the windows would open up or down, in fact, I wondered if it will open at all. Thanks for this!

teriperkins_bfd4324187

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This will be so useful for me. Your are a gem!

ThatGuy

Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but I think there might be some morphs missing specifically for the right side of the lower frame/trim?  I'm trying to shorten the bottom right side trims, but can't seem to find the morph slider for it.  I seem to only be able to do the left side.  

mCasual

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mCasual

yes they are missing 

i'll post the updated version today or tomorrow

i'll also fix the thing that makes the prop disappear (scale 0 ) when you click on "delete keyframe" or "zero selected item"

note that for this prop and others i add stretch morphs using my free script mcjAddStretchMorph and a simple cube

 

ThatGuy said:

Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but I think there might be some morphs missing specifically for the right side of the lower frame/trim?  I'm trying to shorten the bottom right side trims, but can't seem to find the morph slider for it.  I seem to only be able to do the left side.  

 

 

mCasual

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thanks to ThatGuy for pointing this out

mcjwindowwall2 was lacking 3 morphs used to stretch horizontal trimmings (planks) on the right side

i also made the default Scale 100% for the 4 props  

Download and install ( or install-over ) the zip found at the bottom of the page here

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts5/mcjwindowwall2

( if it doent want to download it means you didnt click the famous little-down-arrow )

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note the prop was uploaded at 3h20 xmas morning THEN at 4:30

the difference is that the 3 morphs cause a displacement of 10cm instead of 1cm .... this matches the behavior of the 45 other morphs

ThatGuy

Thanks very much for fixing this.  I really love this prop (as I do with all your stuff).