Tiny New Tool Released On Vault

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

I have just this minute uploaded a new tool to the vault (WHAT!?! Another one? Don't panic just read on... '> ). It is called RotateEm. It works on just a single model file at a time. All it does is to rotate the model in one of three axis, by one of two fixed angles - either 90 degrees or 180 degrees. Furthermore when rotating by 90 degrees there is the choice to rotate either clockwise or anti-clockwise. This latter option is not available for the 180 degree rotation as both directions would give the same result. This gives a total of 9 rotations.

 

 

As not all models/parts of models are centred around the origin (0,0,0) there is an option to adjust the height of the resulting model.

 

 

The project page for this is here.

 

Little back-story - I made this for myself because I had a need for such a tool. In fact I had made a version of this before I made and uploaded the tool in the thread at the end of this link, I just hadn't fully debugged RotateEm. I then finished making those eyes and at last got (hopefully) the bugs out of RotateEm, made slight adjustments to the 7 seven page manual packaged it and posted it.

 

If you download it, I would appreciate feedback especially on the manual.

 

Ooops, nearly forgot. Thanks to MD for his help and insight.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_YeoldeFog]

               

Looks like a handy tool. Is it supposed to be 500 centimetres? That is 5 meters. '>

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_TheOneBlackRider]

               

Your manual is great (IMO)! Not just a "how to use" one. Your "math part " (= the equations) is a very nice addon! Thanks!

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

@YeoldeFog - <various hissing, spitting sounds> Dang, you would think that after the number of hours I put into debugging the thing... Typo corrected version uploaded. Oh and thanks for catching that.

 

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_CaveGnome]

               

Well done TR, this looks very useful. I can't give you real feedback for now (not posting from my usual Gnomeputers) but here are some random thoughts... Make batch work a possibility (using wildcards in the model name for exemple). And why limit the offset to 10 meters ? Maybe you can add a freeform input to let the user choose the desired number.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

<said with tongue firmly in cheek and just a dash of truth behind it (aka mostly just kidding)>

 

Programming School Rules

1. All users are idiots - give them as little choice as you can get away with...

TR

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_shadguy]

               

I gave your tool a quick try even though you had disclaimers about placeables, etc.

 

In the course of working on a request buried off-topic in this thread: http://forum.bioware...lls/?p=20027699, I found your tool useful to quickly rotate a new (missing) edge tile I had to create from the source material.  So for a simple stripped down edge tile (a tile with no animations, no emitters, no wok), it seems to be working.

 

-Dave

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Zwerkules]

               

I have just this minute uploaded a new tool to the vault (WHAT!?! Another one? Don't panic just read on... '> ). It is called RotateEm. It works on just a single model file at a time. All it does is to rotate the model in one of three axis, by one of two fixed angles - either 90 degrees or 180 degrees. Furthermore when rotating by 90 degrees there is the choice to rotate either clockwise or anti-clockwise. This latter option is not available for the 180 degree rotation as both directions would give the same result. This gives a total of 9 rotations.
 
TR

You will get problems with ground textures on tile edges not matching the edges of adjacent tiles if you rotate tiles without remapping ground textures with activated 'rotate texture'.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               

Makes me glad I put those caveats on the project page.

 

TR