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<![CDATA[Wings 3D Development Forum - Design & Development ]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/ Thu, 14 May 2026 16:15:26 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[OD_CopyPasteExternal: support added via plugin]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3209 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:25:27 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3209 OD_CopyPasteExternal Wrote:OD_CopyPasteExternal
Easily copying and pasting of geometry and common attributes across 3D Applications, perfect for quick iterations between them, without concerns about file management
You can find more information at OD_CopyPasteExternal

It mainly exchanges vertices, polygons, UVs, and material names between many 3d softwares, without to pass by export/import process. We just Copy (to external) and Past (from external) - that works for one object each time.
You can install it using Install Plugins & Patch and after restart Wings3D the option will be available via main menu Edit option.

Flüfy Nũrbs (Discord user) helped with the update of original code to Blender 4.5 (I already tested it with v5.0) and Houdini 21.0 (on his repository) since the main project has not been updated for recent versions.

Just notice that the texture image doesn't goes through the Copy/Past process. Only the material. So, we need to select the image and assign to it in order to get it applied in the other 3D software.

Download from my GDrive: wpc_od_copy_paste.beam]]> OD_CopyPasteExternal Wrote:OD_CopyPasteExternal
Easily copying and pasting of geometry and common attributes across 3D Applications, perfect for quick iterations between them, without concerns about file management
You can find more information at OD_CopyPasteExternal

It mainly exchanges vertices, polygons, UVs, and material names between many 3d softwares, without to pass by export/import process. We just Copy (to external) and Past (from external) - that works for one object each time.
You can install it using Install Plugins & Patch and after restart Wings3D the option will be available via main menu Edit option.

Flüfy Nũrbs (Discord user) helped with the update of original code to Blender 4.5 (I already tested it with v5.0) and Houdini 21.0 (on his repository) since the main project has not been updated for recent versions.

Just notice that the texture image doesn't goes through the Copy/Past process. Only the material. So, we need to select the image and assign to it in order to get it applied in the other 3D software.

Download from my GDrive: wpc_od_copy_paste.beam]]> <![CDATA[Ambient Occlusion (AO): New option]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3208 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:24:06 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3208
To enable a different action via the application menu, the CTRL modifier key was used to trigger a secondary option for the AO command.
This is a useful feature for those who paint vertex objects for use in games.

Here is the result:

Let's hope it can be approved.]]>
To enable a different action via the application menu, the CTRL modifier key was used to trigger a secondary option for the AO command.
This is a useful feature for those who paint vertex objects for use in games.

Here is the result:

Let's hope it can be approved.]]> <![CDATA[N-Gons Primitive: Added new parameters to create n-gons]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3207 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:26:30 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3207 Radius(current one), Apothem and Segment length.

This can give us more precision for some shapes.

]]> Radius(current one), Apothem and Segment length.

This can give us more precision for some shapes.

]]> <![CDATA[Connect: Added the MMB option to the command]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3206 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:22:43 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3206 increase the amount of cut;

Sometimes we just need to cut a piece many times.

]]> increase the amount of cut;

Sometimes we just need to cut a piece many times.

]]> <![CDATA[Circularise: Updated the command to better handle mirrored selections]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3205 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:18:08 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3205
Here is a set of videos showing it working.

Let's hope for it to be approved.]]>
Here is a set of videos showing it working.

Let's hope for it to be approved.]]> <![CDATA[UV mapping: Some new stuff]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3204 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:08:11 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3204 Let's hope they can be approved and added to the further version. Smile

AutoUV Segmenting

Added RMB option to the Projection Camera in the UV Segmentation;
This can be particularly useful for text-based texturing.

* Left is the regular LMB option and Right is the new RMB option.

Added option to show textured charts using AutoUVChart colors;
It was suggested at Discord the possibility to use colors (AutoUVCharts) instead of see the textures when we need to re-segment the meshes in AutoUV Segmenting window.

AutoUV Editor

Added a prompt to ask user about UV mapping operations;
It has been reported by users who often work with many combined objects that, when separating them, they accidentally call the Segmenting or AutoUV editor with all of them selected, which causes some trouble.

Added an option to AutoUV to arrange charts horizontally or vertically;
It also includes sub-options to keep or arrange the charts left/center/right or
top/center/bottom related to the selection bounding box.
This is a handy option to help us manually pack the UVs.

]]> Let's hope they can be approved and added to the further version. Smile

AutoUV Segmenting

Added RMB option to the Projection Camera in the UV Segmentation;
This can be particularly useful for text-based texturing.

* Left is the regular LMB option and Right is the new RMB option.

Added option to show textured charts using AutoUVChart colors;
It was suggested at Discord the possibility to use colors (AutoUVCharts) instead of see the textures when we need to re-segment the meshes in AutoUV Segmenting window.

AutoUV Editor

Added a prompt to ask user about UV mapping operations;
It has been reported by users who often work with many combined objects that, when separating them, they accidentally call the Segmenting or AutoUV editor with all of them selected, which causes some trouble.

Added an option to AutoUV to arrange charts horizontally or vertically;
It also includes sub-options to keep or arrange the charts left/center/right or
top/center/bottom related to the selection bounding box.
This is a handy option to help us manually pack the UVs.

]]> <![CDATA[New plugin: Select Fill]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3199 Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:44:53 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3199
I have a new select plugin available very soon.

This adds a "Fill" submenu with several similar commands for growing face selections with adjacent faces.

New fill commands:

Smoothing Group: Fills all faces enclosed inside hard edges.

Inside Sharp Edges: Fills all faces enclosed inside sharp edges set by the inputted angle.

Inside Color Range: Fills all adjacent faces with a color within tolerance of the originally selected faces.

Inside Connected Color Edges: Fills all color faces that have continuous color values across edges from one face to another.

Inside Unassigned Color: Fills adjacent faces that don't have any color assigned.

Inside Unassigned UV: Fills adjacent faces that don't have any UV assigned.

Inside Connected UV Edges: Fills adjacent faces that have continuous UV values across edges from one face to another.

Same Number of Edges: Fills adjacent faces with the same number of edges, if the original selected face has 6 edges, only adjacent faces with 6 edges are selected.

Adjacent Triangles: Only fill adjacent triangles.

Adjacent Quads: Only fill adjacent quads.

Adjacent NGons: Only fill adjacent faces with more than 4 edges.

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I have a new select plugin available very soon.

This adds a "Fill" submenu with several similar commands for growing face selections with adjacent faces.

New fill commands:

Smoothing Group: Fills all faces enclosed inside hard edges.

Inside Sharp Edges: Fills all faces enclosed inside sharp edges set by the inputted angle.

Inside Color Range: Fills all adjacent faces with a color within tolerance of the originally selected faces.

Inside Connected Color Edges: Fills all color faces that have continuous color values across edges from one face to another.

Inside Unassigned Color: Fills adjacent faces that don't have any color assigned.

Inside Unassigned UV: Fills adjacent faces that don't have any UV assigned.

Inside Connected UV Edges: Fills adjacent faces that have continuous UV values across edges from one face to another.

Same Number of Edges: Fills adjacent faces with the same number of edges, if the original selected face has 6 edges, only adjacent faces with 6 edges are selected.

Adjacent Triangles: Only fill adjacent triangles.

Adjacent Quads: Only fill adjacent quads.

Adjacent NGons: Only fill adjacent faces with more than 4 edges.

]]> <![CDATA[Bones]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3197 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:49:07 +0000 J. Baker]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3197 <![CDATA[New commands (vertex deform and more)]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3196 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:38:53 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3196
I haven't posted updates for a bit but I have been making more plugins.

I wanted make sure I wasn't reimplement an existing command somehow for my first commands, so I've been focusing on the deform submenu.

Inner Stretch / Outer Stretch

This is a kind of scaling where the center gets scaled more/less than the outer extremity.

Shear Rotate

A bit like shear and a bit like rotate.

Weighted Move

This is a kind of scaling where the center gets scaled more/less than the outer extremity.

Shear Rotate

A bit like shear and a bit like rotate.

Weighted Move

The weights of each vertex is computed by the normals being blurred with the neighbouring vertices. The amount of movement of each vertex depends how similar the "blurred" normal is with the axis of movement.

I'll have plugins to download soon, as I'm still making some changes.

There are other commands also that I'll show soon.]]> <![CDATA[New plugin: Image contour]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3188 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:10:39 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3188
I've spent some time coming up with a contouring algorithm to turn images directly into paths
when importing them into wings, now it works and I've made a new plugin to add images with
an automatically contoured mesh.

The new command can be found just underneath the "Image Plane" command.

wpc_image_contour.tar

]]>
I've spent some time coming up with a contouring algorithm to turn images directly into paths
when importing them into wings, now it works and I've made a new plugin to add images with
an automatically contoured mesh.

The new command can be found just underneath the "Image Plane" command.

wpc_image_contour.tar

]]> <![CDATA[New plugin: Select by absolute coordinates, boundary box, axis]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3187 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:00:36 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3187
Plugin:
wpc_sel_absolute.tar

]]>
Plugin:
wpc_sel_absolute.tar

]]> <![CDATA[Set Window Size - plugin]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3185 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:03:42 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3185
The option will be added to Tools menu, just bellow to the Screenshot... option.

The dialog will allow us to choose between the Main window and any other floating/undocked window.

But, not everything is perfect and for some unknow reason setting a window's size and getting its value are not matching with the dimension we get after past it on Paint (for instance). It becomes a little small with a difference of -14px x -7px (WxH) - at least on Windows OS.

Link for download: wpc_tools_win_resize.tar]]> <![CDATA[New renderer plugins]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3182 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 01:31:12 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3182
I haven't posted very often recently but I have making some new plugins that might be interesting/useful:

Renderer plugins for Moonray, LuxCore and Appleseed.
IQM (Interquake model)
Maybe USD (very early at the moment)
Some other things maybe.

I have gotten Moonray built by its build instructions, though there might be something wrong with the OpenImageIO library it linked to so I couldn't get the test scenes with textures to work, but the ones that have untextured materials do work, so for now I'm focusing on exporting scenes with untextured materials. Maybe by the time I have a renderer plugin to show I might manage to get textures to work.]]>
I haven't posted very often recently but I have making some new plugins that might be interesting/useful:

Renderer plugins for Moonray, LuxCore and Appleseed.
IQM (Interquake model)
Maybe USD (very early at the moment)
Some other things maybe.

I have gotten Moonray built by its build instructions, though there might be something wrong with the OpenImageIO library it linked to so I couldn't get the test scenes with textures to work, but the ones that have untextured materials do work, so for now I'm focusing on exporting scenes with untextured materials. Maybe by the time I have a renderer plugin to show I might manage to get textures to work.]]> <![CDATA[LWO Plugin]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3181 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:15:42 +0000 edb]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3181
I'm making a thread for the progress on adding improvements to the LWO (wpc_lwo) plugin for github issue 587.

I should have a build to post soon for LWO3 import, I've been also making improvements to LWO2 import as well.]]>
I'm making a thread for the progress on adding improvements to the LWO (wpc_lwo) plugin for github issue 587.

I should have a build to post soon for LWO3 import, I've been also making improvements to LWO2 import as well.]]> <![CDATA[Multiple textures in AutoUV Editor]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3167 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 22:03:48 +0000 micheus]]> https://www.wings3d.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3167
I've been working in a new option to AutoUV editor which allow us to split the mesh in multiple tiles (creating a texture set)

I am providing the necessary files for evaluation to enable this feature in your current Wings3D v2.3 (only). Please evaluate it and share any feedback or report any bugs you may encounter.

Unfortunately the option to Install Plugins & Patches doesn't work accordable. This means we need to replace the two original files. Please make a backup of them if you want to remove the feature or face any bug (that I couldn't catch yet ?).

At the Wings3D install folder you are going to find a shortcut the plugins folder. Access it and you are going to see the autouv folder - where the files should be placed.

The workflow should be like this:

unwrap the mesh;
arrange them on the tiles (remember we will have five columns by five rows available);
when the amount of tiles are set, without any selection, toggle the "Texture Set Mode" by checking it on the menu option. A new submenu will be shown in which we should to choose the naming standard to be used;

There are three standards/patterns for UV Tiling, as far as I found and I included the Wings3D default suffix too (ref. Autodesk Maya doc).

Regards to the UDIM naming, although the tiles IDs are computed for the standard 10 columns, I'm going to show a grid for 5x5 tiles which seems more comfortable and easy to use in Wings3D.

The "Create Texture" will act over the selected tile. We choose the tile by holding the ALT key while clicking on the tile.

Alignment operations over the islands should be respecting the tile in which it is placed.

It's possible to disable the Texture Set mode by toggling this option off. In case we come back to activate it the materials may be reused. (that is a way to restart the texture set mode in case we decide to change the tile's arrangement).

Please let me know if you have any doubt.

Download here.]]>
I've been working in a new option to AutoUV editor which allow us to split the mesh in multiple tiles (creating a texture set)

I am providing the necessary files for evaluation to enable this feature in your current Wings3D v2.3 (only). Please evaluate it and share any feedback or report any bugs you may encounter.

Unfortunately the option to Install Plugins & Patches doesn't work accordable. This means we need to replace the two original files. Please make a backup of them if you want to remove the feature or face any bug (that I couldn't catch yet ?).

At the Wings3D install folder you are going to find a shortcut the plugins folder. Access it and you are going to see the autouv folder - where the files should be placed.

The workflow should be like this:

unwrap the mesh;
arrange them on the tiles (remember we will have five columns by five rows available);
when the amount of tiles are set, without any selection, toggle the "Texture Set Mode" by checking it on the menu option. A new submenu will be shown in which we should to choose the naming standard to be used;