1.07 now ey?

1.07 came kinda fast because it fixes some drastic memory leaking

hmm, that might explain some problems I've had... ok.

Just wanted to pop in and say I bought this a couple days ago and it's been really useful so far. I don't bang on hard surfaces as much as I used to so I probably wont be as useful for feedback. Keep it up though!

Just curious, are you working with RappaTools at all?

JordanW Thank you for taking the time to post.

Moosey_G No, I don't use it.

Niiiice so nice the "extrude" function

Originally Posted by BeatKitano

Niiiice so nice the "extrude" function

Thank you.

Changes for v1.08 are:
- Adds ability to push outwards or inwards the edges of the chamfer at iteration 1 or higher
- Fixes some Chamfering by Edge Weights bugs

Quad Chamfer modifier 1.08 - New Features -...

NICE! That's very cool. I like the push option you added, could be very useful.

Here's a feature that would be cool to have for low poly modeling, and would make this the ultimate one-click chamfer tool.
I would love it if I could have this modifier chamfer and edit vertex normals automatically.

This can help immensly for normal mapping as well as making interesting curvature/chamfers without spending a boat-load of polies:

On the left we have the edited vertex normals smoothing out JUST the corners of the box.
It looks awesome and uses only one iteration of polies



on the right we have the default max chamfer workflow. Its starting to reflect closer to the way I want, but it's not really accurate/blobby.

So the original face's vertexes would keep their normals after the chamfer, or it could be like a slider where you could dial in how much of the original vertex normal direction you want versus how much of the averaged direction you want.

Originally Posted by obliviboy

JordanW Thank you for taking the time to post.

Moosey_G No, I don't use it.

I'm sorry, what I meant to imply was I saw the RappaTools script had a quad chamfer tool like this coauthored by you, I was curious about it's usefulness compared to your sole tool

Computron interesting feature, thank you. I will look into it as see what I can do.

Moosey_G I asked Remus(the author of RappaTools) for the source code for a function that I could use to make the script work for lower versions of max, in return he could have credit in the script and it's source code. The he took it and added some other stuff to, but the base of it is still the same like my quad chamfer script(I think).

The script version(at least mine) is slow, has a destructible workflow, the chamfers are too flat, it fails to chamfer some combination of edges, can't do variable chamfers etc.

The script has many shortcomings in comparison to the plugin/modifier version.

The modifier is more usefull as you can do many things with it.

I concur about the limitation of script version, it was working ok but in many case it completely failed, something I've not encountered yet on the modifier version. Also the added benefit of being able to work non destructively with the modifier on top of editable poly justify the price entirely.

Changes for v1.09 are:
- Adds ability to inset the polygons created by the chamfer allowing for stylistic effects in combination with the push option

Quad Chamfer modifier 1.09 - New features -...

Best buy I have done in a long time
The new push and inset features can make for some easy panel modeling

i wake up each day and there is a new update, awesome!

Impressive work!

Dude, this is going to put you on the map for sure. If you aren't getting alot of sales already.

Those new features would be very very useful when doing panel lines. Right now I tend to float alot of stuff, using EditablePoly or EditableSplines with Sweep, but it's not as clean obviously. With this modifier, I could actually have it modeled in more often, and not destroy my geo underneath

It would be nice if the quad intersections would be straight when possible. Right now they end up tapered down to the corners at the intersection. Really, just the outside edges are. The interior vert spacing seems right.

Also, if there was a smoothing group option. Similar to the Material ID option.

mLichy Thank you for your suggestions. I will see what I can do.

I found a bug it seems... When selecting every other edge on a cylinder side, with Quad Ends Checked, instead of merging 2 ends together, it moves/merges 1 end.

Thanks!

Nice find. Can be fixed.

Originally Posted by obliviboy

Computron interesting feature, thank you. I will look into it as see what I can do.

Take a look at this script by SyncView if you need some insight.

With this feature added to the non-destructive modifier stack workflow,
you could get some really awesome low-poly environment detail modeling.

Computron thanks for the link.

mLichy try 1.10, I solved the issues you were having

Changes for v1.10 are:
- Adds a "Push 2", a "Pinch" and a "Slide" option for controlling the the edges created by the inset function
- Improves the results of "Quad Intersections" and "Quad Ends" options
- Adds option to select the smoothing group of the faces created by the chamfer

Quad Chamfer modifier 1.10 - New features -...

How come this thread hasn't made it to the front page yet???
Get this tool some exposure.