Editable clipping border for rendered viewport shading

Hi,

The script of this file works very well:
https://pasteall.org/blend/36550524d41e41a39432633b296ecb4d
It has been made by @ziel for this atlas (https://www.z-anatomy.com/);
it allows to use 3 cross-section planes X/Y/Z on any object.

I now want to have 6 planes and prepared the three new planes, the custom properties, adapted the nodes in the material and still have two problems:

-I can not multiply the effect of the two last planes, while everything else works fine
-I would like the script to create only two buttons: one to activate/de-activate, and the other to invert the direction(the effect) of all the planes at once.

If somebody could fix it, we would all get a powerful real-time editable version of the clipping border, but with all the colors; something like this (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6915967013798518784)

The purpose is to use this ‘super cutter’ on these files
https://www.phenome10k.org/scans/
The study of the animal anatomy becomes really tasty when this content is combined with this tool.

So you have a script that someone wrote that you want changes to? You should contact them directly to ask for those changes. It would be a professional discourtesy to modify someone else’s script unless it’s presented in a way where the writer is OK with it, like if it was on GifHub and you could fork it. Since that isn’t the case here, it would be unprofessional and potentially dangerous (infringing on potential IP/trade secrets) for anyone else to modify it. If you can get the writer to lend permission, then we can look at and modify the script :slight_smile:

I contacted @ziel , he did a huge work tailored for the atlas project on my demand.
This call for help on the main forum is meant to alleviate his work.
All the content is under CC-BY-SA license.
None of what he did would be destroyed, I only want to have the option to choose another behavior on the veterinary files.

I appreciate this, and this does mean other people can work on it… but the license isn’t included in the script, so there’s no way of knowing it’s CC-BY-SA. I’m personally not comfortable with that liability, but I’m sure someone else will come along :slight_smile:

Everybody seems comfortable with the fact of paying for any little add-on on Gumroad, while open source creators and promoters have to defend themselves of not being thieves.
That’s a pity.

It’s not about free vs paid. If I distribute code that someone else wrote and I modified and it’s not explicitly licensed for modified redistribution, I’m breaking the law. Modifying this code and giving it back to you is distribution. I’m just personally not willing to take that risk without written permission or a visible license

@josephhansen
The first lines are:

'# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.’

Can it be clearer than this?

Excellent, it’s ok then :slight_smile:

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Do you mean that you are going to modify the script?