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Old 1st November 2005, 07:27 AM   #1
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Default PLUGIN: Knife version 1.3

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.



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:



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.

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Old 2nd November 2005, 08:14 AM   #2
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Thanks Dennis 8)
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Old 2nd November 2005, 10:41 AM   #3
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You're welcome

Also, AJ MacLeod has very courteously provided a Linux compile for version 1.3.

Enjoy,

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Default Linux version missong knife.tcl

Hi,

the Linux version is missing the knife.tcl file. Copying the one from the Windows version seems to work.

Thanks for a great plugin! :-)

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Old 6th November 2005, 06:38 PM   #5
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Default Re: Linux version missong knife.tcl

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the Linux version is missing the knife.tcl file. Copying the one from the Windows version seems to work.
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Thanks Nico - I've added this to the Linux distributable.

The TCL files are the same file in the Linux and Windows distributables, so taking the TCL from the Windows version was fine. This does mean the tcl files end up with embedded carriage returns (0x0d), since the TCL files originate in Windows, but this seem to have posed no problems with the TCL files on any Linux flavors (of which I'm aware)...
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