Array tools, all in one for translation, scale and rotation array

Elreenys · August 14, 2019, 7:56pm

Thanks, but I’m a girl.

marcatore · August 14, 2019, 8:28pm

You rock woman!

Elreenys · August 15, 2019, 7:16pm

thanks!

norka · August 15, 2019, 11:46pm

Yo! I have been so eager to get a chance to play with this, but sadly have not yet, and honestly have little time read everything above… Do we have the ability with this addon to scale stuff (faces, selection of verts) in edit mode and make them an exact size?.. like if I have some faces selected and want them 73.25" (imperial) wide on X axis, could I do this with this addon?

Elreenys · August 16, 2019, 8:48pm

Short answer is no, you can’t enter edit mode, the addon is only for object mode. You can get an approximation of the dimensions with little math. Since the scale is a percentage of the original object, with your example, let’s say it’s 56" wide and want 73.25". You can wrote directly for scale on X axis : 100*73.25/56 and get 130.804 % and have a pretty good approximation.

norka · August 16, 2019, 10:06pm

Thanks. No probs. I just remembered I have Mesh > Transform > Set Dimensions… duh.

Hokuss · August 17, 2019, 12:47am

It’s magic ! many thanks mademoiselle

Elreenys · August 17, 2019, 4:07pm

ok, glad you find a way.

YAFU · September 1, 2019, 1:35pm

So finally a simple way for array empty elements, therefore instances.
Thank you.

dimitarsp · September 9, 2019, 5:51pm

Woa, did not think of that! That’s actually amazing!

Elreenys · September 15, 2019, 8:38am

The addon will be add to Blender 2.81. So, here a link to github. I also add the link in the description.

Dheim · September 16, 2019, 3:01am

I had a chance to use this the other day and really enjoyed it. Thanks for your hard work!

Do you think there’s any chance you could extend the functionality to also work on another axis of array? By that I mean, imagine if you were trying to fill a stadium of people. Right now this add-on could do an entire row, or it could do one person in each row going down, but not both (at least I couldn’t find a way to).

If not that’s ok, it just felt like a possiblity.

Elreenys · September 16, 2019, 9:52am

I don’t know many stadium with round structure , it’s more elliptical. And I’m working to add ellipses. Your demand isn’t a simple task, I’ll see what I can do.

urkokul · September 16, 2019, 4:54pm

Thanks for this nice addon

Dheim · September 16, 2019, 5:07pm

Sorry, I failed at describing what I meant.

Right now if I wanted to make this shape I have to do it in two steps of your addon - once to go sideways, and then again to go down. What I was suggesting (and you can always say no, it’s ok!) was whether it was within the scope of what you want to do with the addon that you could make it possible to go in multiple directions like this all at once. So I could set values to make the array go along the X axis a certain number of times but then to also go down Z (or Y, whatever) a different number of times.

Elreenys · September 16, 2019, 7:34pm

It’s ok, I will take a look. It’s been a while since I think about it too.

polynut · September 23, 2019, 5:14am

Thank for making a productive array tool for blender since after working for many years with max array i found the one in blender poorly implemented for productivity.

Elreenys · September 23, 2019, 3:40pm

I agree that why I made this one and share it.

polynut · September 23, 2019, 4:45pm

Just try it this morning and it is not working correctly and it crash blender twice + it deactivate itself after crashing.

After starting an array it often become irresponsive and changing offset or any other parameters do nothing then i click cancel and it crash blender.

Any tips on this?

Elreenys · September 23, 2019, 6:39pm

I will investigate, it never happens before. Can you give me more informations :

addon version
Blender version
any console report ?