Hi All,
Version 0.0.3 now uploaded, changes include;
Cheers,
Truman
It still seems to act funny. For instance, the parameters appear in the upper portion of the Tool panel. I had expected them in the lower portion of the tool shelf where scripts generally run. But thats Ok, I clicked Generate Ivy and it did make some ivy, but then the lower portion of the tool shelf changed itās heading to Ivy Generator and the parameters in the upper portion of the tool shelf disappeared. So I ran the script again and got nothing. I checked the console and did not see any errors reported. But On Windows XP64 it looks like you can only run it once.
Thanks for porting this script, I do like it, I hope this feedback helps.
Hi Atom,
Feedback is the best possible thing in the beta stage so please keep it coming!
The parameters most likely disappeared because the cube is automatically deselected by the script, I think this should change in future. If you reselect the cube (or any mesh), the parameters for a new ivy object should reappear in the upper portion of the toolshelf. However, at this stage hitting generate ivy again will create a new ivy object rather than modifying the old one. This because the generation is slow.
Cheers and hope that clears a few things up,
Truman
Maybe we shouldnāt use a poll of the ā¦ but give only an error-message, if no suitable mesh is selected.
Or in the Panel is shown, which (suitable) object is selected or NONE 
this by sure would be helpful, wouldnāt it?
Hi All,
Version 0.0.4 has been uploaded with the following changes:
Please see the first post for updated usage instructions.
Cheers,
Truman
Hi All,
Version 0.0.5 has been uploaded, changes include;
Cheers,
Truman
With version 5 I get an error about matrix multiplication on line 405.
Using Blender 2.5.8 r38533 x32
Here is the mesh geometry I used.
25_ivy_generator-5.blend (432 KB)
I think it has something to do with this from the Developers Meeting Notes, July 24, 2011:
Python math utilities: thereās a bug in the code that treats āmatrix * vectorā and āvector * matrixā the same. They mean something else mathematically though. Campbell added a warning in console for wrong usage. Final fix then will happen 13th of September.
@Atom
The SVN of about sunday changed the matrix vector implementation and TrumanBlending used that already.
Two āremediesā possible: get a rather fresh Blender (say of yesterday or ) or revert the matrix * vector into vector * matrix in the code
at the lines (there are at least 3 places, where I did it too, after learning about the change , comipiled the trunk and no error )
@Atom.
Change of API ā¦ either get newest Blender (e.g. of yesterday) or change matrix * vector (for a while) back to vector * matrix
Hi All,
Version 0.0.6 is now uploaded, there are no extra features this time but a significant speed increase of around 40%.
Also, as noted above Iāve used the new Matrix/Vector multiplication requirements. This means a version of Blender post r38676 is now required.
Cheers,
Truman
awesome!
This is way too much fun!
ooh, look flowers! my mesh is so happy!
Hereās my quick little test:
Great Job guys!
Hi All,
Version 0.0.7 has been uploaded and includes some more optimisations and different property max/min/precision.
Keep the images coming too!
Cheers,
Truman
Hello Truman,
Iāve been playing with this quite a bit since yesterday! very cool so far!
I think itād be great if it auto saved the settings out to a text file (default addons path) when run and when the user hits the āupdate ivyā button. so the next time you open it it could autoload the last used settingsā¦(with a set to defaults button too!)
I think thatās be useful when you want to re-use the same settings from multiple different start pointsā¦ you could ātabā into edit mode to snap the cursor to a new position, tab out and then just add a new ivy!
Also +1 on users saving/loading presets!
@Michael
Truman did already a very good job, but I couldnāt see the difference of choices of the parameters ā¦
I changed it using (again ) a panel, and your question for reuse is available too.
The image shows (a screen capture only, no further manipulation!) what happens if the cursor comes closer and closer to the cube 
E.g. the leaves get automatically that very green colour!
Here to be found: https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/branches/ivygen/pkhg_ivy/
2197_pkhg.py is the version I refer to ā¦
@Michael
Truman did already a very good job,
Yep, where did I say otherwise?
As for moving the cursorā¦Well, sort ofā¦ of I want to snap the cursor to a vertex I canāt without losing the panel because i have to go into edit mode to snap itā¦ I can move the cursor, sure!
I just think that some level of persistence between sessions would be a good thing and is actually fairly trivial to add with your own custom text file formatā¦
Another approach:
the preset system is also well known by now with plenty of examples to referenceā¦ although that usually relies on outputting py scripts that set properties when run(on selection from the ui list)ā¦ it could also be a way to give persistenceā¦ have a ālast usedā preset auto saved on pressing the āupdate ivyā button and auto load it when running a sessionā¦ then you can just load the default preset if you want to start over.
Oh, and the main difference i noticed was a shorter max length for ivy (now limited to3)
You can manually enter higher values by clicking the parameter though.
@Michael,
At my version I do not loose the panel! Or are you still referring to Trumans version, THAT is not a panel, but operator related GUI, which is closed, if you go into edit-mode (my reason to use a Panel!)
Would you be so kind and show us your āsaveā code, please?