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Drop To Floor v0.8 offers improved object handling so as to work with Mograph Cloners and so on.

Drop It! v0.6 offers the same improved object handling as well as:
- An offset value for distance from or into the target surface/floor.
- A timeout value as a way to abort the drop since COFFEE doesn't offer any user input during the process.
- A readout of the time to do the drop.
- Implementation of the same ray-triangle intersection algorithm used in Drop It! pro for very accurate target drops.

Robert

kuroyumeAdmin · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:27 am Post subject:

Both of these have been ported from COFFEE to C++ if anyone is interested. Smile

birdy · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Hi Robert just downloaded your updated plugin but it seems it doesn't work properly.
The plugin places the objects above the floor not on the floor.
I use it with R 11

Regards

kuroyumeAdmin · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:58 am Post subject:

Which one, DropToFloor or DropIt? Both use the same drop-to-floor algorithm though.

Make sure there are no stray points (without polygons) as points are used to determine the distance. Unfortunately, this includes Null objects. Also, it is a limitation of the SDK that combinations of polygon and spline objects will not connect (the splines are lost).

Can you attach an example scene (zipped)?

Robert

birdy · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Hi Robert,

I had the problem with DroptoFloor.
But since I was trying to make an example scene the plugin worked fine.
Don't know what went wrong.
Anyway I the problem is gone and I am still enjoying your plugins.
Thanks.

birdy · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Now I know what went wrong.
When the object is a child of another object it won't droptofloor.
When the object is a parent it won't droptofloor either.
Only when the object is stand alone it will droptofloor as it should.
I hope this will help.

kuroyumeAdmin · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:47 am Post subject:

Confirmed (just DropToFloor).

I updated the conversion to point objects in DropIt! but not in DropToFloor. If you go to the download page, you can get the latest version:

http://www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/products_cinema_4d.html

ETA: If you select an object with children, they are all included in the drop calculation *as one object*. This is actually a 'feature' so that you can drop a set of objects as a unit. If you want to drop just the parent object irregardless of its children, you'll need to move the children out from under the object and then rechild them afterwards.

Thanks,
Robert