Dennis
1st November 2005, 07:27 AM
All,
The Knife plugin has been updated to version 1.3.
http://supercoldmilk.com/knife.html
This release enforces a per-surface slice of all edges.
Before this release, all surfaces of the knife were thrown at the cut object at once, which sometimes caused seemingly random slicing. This fix forces a per-surface slice.
http://bellsouthpwp.net/a/t/atomicd/img/knife_ex.gif
In the above image, you see an object being sliced by a 30 surface knife.
The first slice uses the pre-1.3 knife - you can see the misplaced cuts here, and the absence of cuts along a section of the upper-left of the object.
The second slice uses the 1.3 knife - because surfaces are sliced in order, this works as expected.
This does remove a rather esoteric feature of the knife, however:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/a/t/atomicd/img/knife_ex2.gif
The left-most image shows a rectangle with two intersecting surfaces that have been Merged into one object. Not an ideal Knife, but it works.
The knife slices in the pre-1.3 version between the two surfaces.
However, in 1.3 (right-most image), because slices are performed per-surface, this slice does not take place. The vertices are inserted where expected, but there is no slice.
I believe this is still favorable to the old version. Feel free to comment on whether the old version's method would be preferable in any way.
Dennis
The Knife plugin has been updated to version 1.3.
http://supercoldmilk.com/knife.html
This release enforces a per-surface slice of all edges.
Before this release, all surfaces of the knife were thrown at the cut object at once, which sometimes caused seemingly random slicing. This fix forces a per-surface slice.
http://bellsouthpwp.net/a/t/atomicd/img/knife_ex.gif
In the above image, you see an object being sliced by a 30 surface knife.
The first slice uses the pre-1.3 knife - you can see the misplaced cuts here, and the absence of cuts along a section of the upper-left of the object.
The second slice uses the 1.3 knife - because surfaces are sliced in order, this works as expected.
This does remove a rather esoteric feature of the knife, however:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/a/t/atomicd/img/knife_ex2.gif
The left-most image shows a rectangle with two intersecting surfaces that have been Merged into one object. Not an ideal Knife, but it works.
The knife slices in the pre-1.3 version between the two surfaces.
However, in 1.3 (right-most image), because slices are performed per-surface, this slice does not take place. The vertices are inserted where expected, but there is no slice.
I believe this is still favorable to the old version. Feel free to comment on whether the old version's method would be preferable in any way.
Dennis