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Script: Shadows and Wireframe
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Testing the python file :french & english version . 8.8L (updating date : 27/10/2008) 


 
A few precisions 
Extrusion: 
    Normal or with  thickness reduction 
    Negative 
Split, exploding a shape  into facets 
 Matrix Extrusion 
     "Segments" Effect 
     A number of divisions
     Operation restricted to the selected faces 
     Rotation 
     Graphic Interface 
     Examples of acceptable shapes  forms 
     Local axes 
Wrapping
Hollows 
Bevelled edge/Chamfer 
RVK animation 
Saving parameters in a text file 
Last modifications 
Usage: links on the Net 

A few precisions for the neophytes whom have never had the occasion to work with a modeling tool

At the origin of this script, is the need to show the shadows casted by the wireframe structures. Because it is not sufficient to choose the Wire option on the materials settings to make them appear in an image. Thus, basically, Tesselate transforms the mesh so that the light is intercepted by narrow faces as close as to the original wire shape.

To obtain this effect, it was necessary to empty  the face and fill it again with several other  facets (what justifies the name of the script, tessel in english, refers to the mosaic, but it is also the name of a tool which produced sharp-edged divisions in 3DS 2.0 or 3.0). A facet for each edge, plus an optional internal facet. 

Once these facets were recreated, it was possible to handle them in several different manners to obtain different results : 

-- THE EXTRUSION 
-- THE CHAMFER 
-- THE WRAPPING 
-- THE GROOVE EFFECTS 

It was also possible to repeat the operations in a recursive way to obtain extremely complex shapes 

Necessary Additional knowledges :

  1. Tesselate operates on the whole shape unless you use the " Face select " option 
  2. The axes are determined according to the plan of the facet: XY corresponding to the plan itself and Z to the height with regard to this plan.
  3. It is possible to choose the thickness of the visible facet we want to leave while varying XY cursor
  4. To shift in height, towards the exterior of the shape, compared to the position of the origin facet with the Z. cursor.This shift is usually named Extrusion . 
  5. The button Neg Z reverses the Extrusion.  displacement.


This is resulting in the creation of an internal facet which can be opened or closed. The distance of this new facet from the origin plan can be modified. 
either towards outside while pressing on the Thickness Z button :

Or towards the interior by pressing the Neg Z button : 

Finally it is possible to dismantle ( splitter ) all the faces, or only the selected ones (this tools works with normal edit mode and not with the old faceselected list taken in the faceselect UV mode), into autonomous facets which one can set aside and separate by using the Smooth option from Editmode menu F9: 

Matrix 

A matrix option allows to divide the extrusion (equal to the extrude function in blender) into several segments or fragments that we can orient and enlarge freely along X, Y, and Z axes, centered on the object or on the face they descend from. 

The number of division is controlled by the Div button . 

In the 8.6 version, segments were underlined,(in fact, those segments are only visible in surface subdivision, as it is an additional face into the interior of the object volume that gives the impression of a throttling )in the following versions, it is possible to deactivate the puffy aspect that the throttling gave. See image below.

Select Faces 

Operations can be restricted to a certain number of faces that are selected getting through the "FaceSelect mode"(the F key, is the UV coordinates creation interface). 

Precision on the Faceselectmode: After having selected the faces it is necessary to leave this mode by pressing F key again, because it is impossible to work in python under these conditions. 

Rotation

Graphic interface 

The different shapes possibilities

Illustration of the axis concept /1

Illustration of the axis concept /2

Illustration of the axis concept /3-4-5 

Version 8.8a:
Hollows

Wrapping

Chamfer/bevelled edge

Absolute/relative mesh animation

Animation 
Fichier Blend


Recording the parameters


...
##
## Change the following line to indicate the saving 
## directory for the parameters 
## 
Tessel_Path="g:/tmp/"
...

The recording of the parameters should allow to construct a complex shapes database that will occupy a very little storing place. 

Last modifications

- v 8.8.f: (1) improvement: The Split mesh option preserves materials and UV 

- v 8.8.i: (1) improvement: Materials and the armatures are not a problem any more 
(2) addition of undo/redo multiple undo/redo, 
(3) improvement: save the data file in the current directory of the last recorded blender file 
(4) A second random option for the displacement along xy 

- v 8.8.j: (1) also works in Edit Mode 

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