Ready, Corners for the free 77 mouldings ... 1001 Props

mCasual

In case you missed it back then, 

over here 

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts3/straightmoldspack

,there's 71 straight mouldings which can help you build architectural and furniture elements.

Soon i'll post 71 matching "corner" props to "turn the corners ".

Each prop will have a radius morph, so you can make extra narrow or extra wide arcs.

I may also make 180 °  and 360 ° versions.

Since there's 4 ways a tube can turn ( left/right/up/down ) this may turn into a  .... 12 X 71= 852  props pack !!!!!

Note that mcjBuilderA would let you do all that, but ready-made props are practical !

The test prop shown here has an .obj size of ... lets see ... 28K

The Third image is "Amy Peachy Maid - In a Room With A View Of Pluto".

The wall's baseboard needed a cornerizer ... so that's why we get into this.

Fif 4 - The 71 moulding shapes.

Fig 5 - This shows a 360° Corner prop, XZ scaled-up

 

then we'll get back to the Pose script ...you know

and the Midi project

and the Kinect projects

 

Vilian

I strongly suspect you don't ever sleep...

mCasual

usually 32-sides per 360 degrees is enough

but 64 would be better, or of course, an arbitrary number chosen by the user ... which would mean, a script

 

mCasual

This is generated using a custom version of mcjBuilderA

the main change is that the UV Map "resists" well to the Radius-morph

But for a fixed radius, right now, today, you could do corner props like that using this mcjBuilderA code:

Profile 0_RoundMoldSize 5 5profileUnits cmcloseprofile onPathUnits cmTread 1Radius 2.5ClosePath offStepAngle 11.25Turn 90

 

 

 

 

 

mCasual

some numbers for 16-sided 90 degrees corner props

about 2 megs for 71 prop files 1 morph channel

about 4 megs for the 71 obj files

i'll load them all and see if there's duds

...

they all look fine and their morphs work

soooooo

now i have to make the turn-left, turn-up, turn down versions

 

 

mCasual

Six more straight mouldings will be included

and the corresponding corners

 

so ...4 directions, 3 corner angles ( 90, 180, 360 )

plus the 77 straight edges  

12 * 77 + 77 = ?

huh?

1001 props !!!!!!

 

mCasual

See when i was talking about turn left/turn right/turn,

though you could obtain one from the other using negative morph strengths,

it would flip the normal, some 3Delight Shaders would render them all black 

and there would be bump/displacement map issues.

 

Once the 1001 props are all generated, i'll run special programs to make sure the texture/prints are not inverted and the normals point outside the shapes

3Delight Cartoon renders also render objects all black when the normals are not properly set up

and Poser shows them weirdly invisible except when seen from the inside

note that there could be a need for that .... when using those shapes as tunnels instead of mouldings

...meaning we'll make sure the props dont have this .... problem

( 3Delight Cartoony render )

 

mCasual

Left / Right / Up / Down, Straight

 

 

 

mCasual

Cyma not Cima !!

Cymatium molding appears at the top of the cornice in the classical order, and made of the s-shaped cyma molding (either cyma recta or cyma reversa). It is characteristic of Ionic columns and can appear as part of the entablature, the epistylium, and the capital. Often decorated with a palmette or egg-and-dart ornament on the surface of the molding.

Cyma molding profile (left) and shadow pattern (right)

7. The heights of the parts of the capital are to be so regulated that three of the nine parts and a half, into which it was divided, lie below the level of the astragal on the top of the shaft. The remaining parts are for the cymatium, abacus, and channel. The projection of the cymatium beyond the abacus is not to be greater than the size of the diameter of the eye [of the volute].[1]

mCasual

Here you can see that using simple numbers ( metric ) one can achieve perfect abutting 

and someday who knows i may add a welding tool

most moldings have their axis in their lower left corner

or are horizontally centered and "floored:"

mCasual

a cartoony-software render

the fact that the interior of the tubes is black and not the outside means

the Normals are OK!

and the fact that the letters on the curvy mouldings are not unpside down or mirrored means

the UV maps are OK

because of the symetries, the left-turn moulding is basically the same as the right-turn one

but the textures are not equivalent

the Up and Down curve props are radically different from one another

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if you wanted the normals to point inward, because you want to use them as tunnels

you could give the radius morphs negative values ... i think

... yes ! see figure 2

unfortunately the straight-molding props dont have that feature

mCasual

only 2 hours left for the deadline

what do we have here? 

as you recall there's 4 main sets of props

straight moldings

90, 180 and 360 moldings

 

and each prop has a "radius morph"

only 2 hours left for the deadline

what do we have here? 

as you recall there's 4 main sets of props

straight moldings

90, 180 and 360 moldings

 

and each prop has a "radius morph"

 

this is the "baseboard" shape molding, 360 degrees with a radius of 0 Right-Turning : named OR_baseb_Mcj​

and the same with a radius of 800%

then you have OL_baseb_Mcj​ the Left-Turning version

which seems to have a visible seam !!!! oh no ... i have to fix the molding generator and it's 10:04

oops false alert ! calm down calm down , i just forgot to regenerate the 3 other groups

 

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/uploads/FileUpload/7d/2c9e67a039eef9aab33a08b93e8f2e.jpg

 

mCasual

no seams see no seams do

mCasual

all 77 of the 360 degrees UP-Turning props

rendered in Software-Cartoony mode and showing that our normals are OK !

now i will ... re-use thumbnails for the hundreds of props, maybe add a little something

 

 

mCasual

and i fixed the issue : when you clicked the delete Keyframe button in Daz or did a Zero Selected item the prop was scaled 0% and we'd go "where is it where is it"

that was a quirk of the old version of PP2 exporter which as you may know or not has been updated recently for Daz Studio 4 by me

 

11h27, 33 minutes to package them 1001 props in their 26 folders

mCasual

11:43 ... uploading the 40 megs package of 1001 props

200 megs uncompressed, but there's 64 sides per 360 degrees for the curvy props ... 

77 props, 

left/right/up/down/straight

90, 180, 360 degrees

it's called the mcjMegaMoldPack

 

AAAAARRRRGGHHH !!!! google says the 40 megs file is too big !!!

i'll split it in 5

they conspire to make me miss my midnight deadline !

 

the URL is

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjmegamoldpack

oh yay my clock was still at 12:00 when the 3rd download ended :) lets say i won :)

 

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Thank you!  These are awesome!