Volume Preserving Smoothing ($)

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Hi, I made new addon for smoothing meshes while trying to maintain object shape.

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Features:

  • smooth mesh while maintaining main object shape
  • border mesh vertices will slide together with rest of the mesh, to get nice even distribution, or they can be frozen
  • mirror modifier aware = center vertices wont move away from symmetry line
  • ability to define sliding rail edges (marked as sharp)
  • three edge tension methods (Uniform, Proportional to edge length, Inverse to edge length)
  • optimized with NUMPY
    There are 3 algorithms - some are better in specific cases - eg.
  • Infalte smooth works ok for round convex meshes.
  • Vol smooth is often best but bit slow
  • Laplace smooth is usually ok.

Video with examples how this works soon.

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Info video:

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Super useful, price is also very good :slight_smile:

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Just bought your smoothing addon today, it’s amazing ! Thx

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What happened mate, not available for purchase?

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Site is still on, so maybe try later. Sometimes Gumroad acts weird.
Had happened to me couple of times.

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I’ll probably use this addon forvever.

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I realised long ago, your addon doesn’t work with X Mirror under Mesh Options

It seems the normal Smooth Vertex has X Y and Z options, would it be possible to have this on your addon?

This is a bit problematic when not using a mirror modifier on a mirrored mesh with UVs and textures already set up. The one workaround I used was to mirror the selection every time but that wastes a bit of time.

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Ok, I will add this to both blender versions.

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Nice, thanks

I use your addon almost every time I open Blender lol

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Hi there, I just bought your add-on and couldnt get it to work! I am on 2.8 (jun 25th) version and I see the item on the add-on list but cant assign shortcut or find it in the context menu!
Regards, Szabi

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It it located on bottom of W-menu -> in mesh edit mode.

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Found it, thanks, great tool!

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For those who cannot find the W-menu (pressing W in Blender 2.8 give the Select options: Box, Circle, Select, etc), that is now rightclick. So:

  • In Edit mode select vertex, edges or faces you want to smooth.

  • Right Click. Context menu should show up. At the bottom you see: Mesh Smoothing.

  • Select: Inflate smoothing, Laplacian Smooth, or Volume Smoothing.

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Hmmm … how about adding a brush mode for this?
Would this be hard to implement?

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Oh, and if you even add a proper uv relax tool i’m gonna buy the addon a second time :stuck_out_tongue:

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Does this add-on only work in Edit Mode or also in Object Mode and more importantly: Sculpt Mode? It’d be great to be able to mask an area in Sculpt Mode, and then use Volume Preserving Smoothing on the area.

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Just bought it by the way. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks. I will look into sculpt mode support. I assume unmasked area should be smoothed. Not sure about performance on heavy meshes though.

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Somewhat of a Bug Report

For long time I’ve noticed, with the Mirror modifier, it doesn’t smooth the center verts correctly.

I can’t really say this is a bug because I don’t know if this can be helped or not, because I assume for this to be ‘fixed’ the addon would have to somehow treat the center verts as if there was no mirror.

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Smoothing the center lines only increases the issue.

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When it should be doing this

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