Snowflake and Icicle generator

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Thanks, I’ll try it. Looking forward to doing some winter scenery :wink:

Now, a day later, I can confirm, the scaling works nicely. Its one more step to do, but as long as its a straight edge its a good workaround.
Surely great if you add the option for smaller ones with kinks in a future release though.

Thanks again for making credible winter scenes a bit more possible. Sometimes post processing is not an option, I my case, because I work a lot with 360 renderings…

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I had no problem installing on 2.9, but when trying to use I get this error.

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I’m just glad to see it being used! Never got around to doing the winter scenes fully myself. Maybe someday :laughing:

If you give me about a week I should be able to work on the kinks, might just do it all the time (trying to work on this around the day job).

@Plan, that’s my fault, didn’t merge something in properly. Should be fixed now!

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If you restart after installation it should be fine. At least that was the case in my installation.
Btw. Remember the panel only shows in edit mode.

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Some updates to the script now live:

Settings:

  • Removed “Reselect Base Mesh” option (this is now the default and unchangeable behaviour)
  • Removed “Work on selected edges” option (this is now the default and unchangeable behaviour)
  • Added “Delete previous generations” option (this will overwrite previously generated icicles, and is the cause for the other two options being deleted)
    • This will remove everything but the base mesh used for initial generation. Recommended to use a separate mesh for generating icicles to prevent accidental loss of important mesh data.

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Preview:

  • Added “Preview” option to script. Will show pyramids in the 3D view indicating the max/min parameters
  • Previews are removed by pressing “ESC” or mouse right-click
  • Previews will update when parameters are changed, but not if mesh is moved (toggle preview off and on again in this case)
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Other changes:

  • Adjustments to min/max parameters
  • Adjustments to subdivisions for kinks
  • Depth/radius ratio check removed (shorter, stubbier icicles now possible)

The Preview feature is a preview itself, might be a bit buggy at times so let me know if it (or anything else) acts up

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Hey, I just gave this a new try. Looks better, especially as you can now define also smaller ones.
Still, there is a little issue. Have a look at the image, icicles do not get built along the complete edge selected, despite it being one edge.

Maybe you can take a look? Its a simple Archipack roof.

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Thanks!

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Sorry, that’s an issue with the iterations counter. Simple fix I can do this evening.
If you need an interim solution just increase the “iterations” value in the panel

EDIT:
Fixed now, should fill out the full edge

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