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Archived post by jake rice

Circle Packing stuff. @jamesowen sent me a stack exchange post on this effect, and i foolishly said it would be easy. 3 days later i finally got it working :3

good luck boyes, only works on h16.5 due to the edge transport node :3

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Archived post by ikoon

I try to use VEX as much as possible, so I have prepared some “uber” system for myself. I define my custom functions in one “uber.vfl”, where is also typical use (a snippet) of this function, with chf() chramp() etc. Then I push a button and this uberfile is split and automaticaly written into three files: 1) /vex/include 2) this bit.ly/2FbskfB system to be able to replace “code shortcuts” with the snippets 3) simple helpcard, just a list of names of my functions.

I also improved the automatic UI generator, so it reads comments and generates toggle chi() when the comment is // toggle. It also automatically changes the type of chs() to Node type or File type reference. It also creates separators.

If someone is interested, I would improve and comment the python scripts. With better English than this, hopefully.

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Archived post by Atom

Yon recently posted a link to a .rar file with example models for destruction practice. A few of them contained a bunch of related texture maps referenced by a .mtl file.
I wrote a short script that will read the .mtl file and create a Redshift material with a *rsTextureMap* populated with the associated map for that material. It is a quick way to get a bunch of materials generated that are related to the model.
You can check it out at this link if you are a Redshift user. forums.odforce.net/topic/32900-mtl-to-redshift-material/

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Archived post by aswaab

I can finally make glowing digital broccoli! woo-hoo!

@TOADSTORM @xcaseyx This is the new HDA. Please un-pin the old one. That one is garbage written by a monkey.

And, here is my hip file for this beauty.

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Archived post by rich lord

I’ve been needing a bunch of pattern based, seamless textures, so I made a couple of tools to help me make them fast. They are pretty crude. This first one tries to make the scatter tool seamless by relaxing points, and copying any overlaps onto its opposite side. These points get pinned, and any internal ones get a final relax. It works OK, good enough for what I need.

Heres the hip

Then I did another version following the same idea but with RBDs. I used @mestela ‘s trick of scaling up the rbds to create an initial packing, then processed them similar to the scatter version.

Heres the hip for this one

Gifs of the pieces scaling up look great

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