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Comments About TurboSquid Plugin
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Comments About TurboSquid Plugin // SDK, Plug-in & 3rd Party Area
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 7:05am
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Released At last :D :banana:
Add your comments here... |
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 7:09am
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Im still having problems with, once i click on Publish Object or anything that needs to load the tentacle system..
UNABLED TO LAUNCH TENTACLES
Anyone has this problem? |
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 7:17am
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And... it's me.. or once you have Tentacles installed, Vray is deinstalled from the Package Manager?? :confused: |
Post by spacekdet // Nov 10, 2008, 9:26am
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Let's hope this thing is voluntary and not mandatory.
I don't even like calamari. |
Post by TomG // Nov 10, 2008, 12:19pm
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Being just a toolbar, it should be easy to hide, reposition, or save in a layout the way you like it.
HTH!
Tom |
Post by ivampretti // Nov 10, 2008, 12:49pm
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@Prodigy - I'm having the same problem as you, until now the pluggin has no function to me :mad::mad: |
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 1:15pm
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MMM...:confused:
Im wondering how many people are having this problem...
Im running on XP sp2 with 2g ram 7.6release |
Post by ivampretti // Nov 10, 2008, 1:38pm
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@Prodigy - I figer it out!!! ahaahaahha you gonna find so stuped! You just have to run the program in the Start - all programs - TurboSquid folder and then run the plugin in the TS :D:D |
Post by TomG // Nov 10, 2008, 1:58pm
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I did find V-Ray unloaded from the Package Manager on installing, a little odd but easily remedied by doing an Install New, selecting V-Ray.rsx, and then doing a Load. I'll pass on the info and the installation process can be looked into, maybe even that minor hiccup can be straightened out!
Once installed, here on Vista 64 bit, Tentacles works normally from the toolbar, I didn't get an error message about it at all.
If you do run into problems, send along a step-by-step of what you were doing, plus a screengrab if useful to show the error, to my email address, and I'll forward along to TurboSquid!
Thanks!
Tom |
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 2:11pm
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Yeap.. seems turbo squid has problems on find the main app.
mmmm...i think i understand what's happend here..
Ivampretti, Let me guess... you live in brasil Right? and you have Xp in portuguez or spanish?? Right??
Im using XP Spanish Edition, and XP use a folder called "Archivos de Programa" instead "Program Files" used by default on XP English edition...
Maybe that's the problem.. :rolleyes: |
Post by prodigy // Nov 10, 2008, 2:14pm
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Hahahahha I was right :banana::banana:
Locate your Turbosquid Instalation (spanish edition) Archivos de programa
Create a folder on the root of your C: called "Program Files" and copy your turbosquid folder there...
Voilá, now Turbosquid runs from Truespace... :D |
Post by TomG // Nov 10, 2008, 4:39pm
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I'll pass on the news to TurboSquid, now that the problem has been identified - good detective work!
Tom |
Post by splinters // Nov 11, 2008, 1:49am
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Pedantic I know, but it is a shame that the toolbar is slightly bigger than the rest of those in workspace...:o
Nice icons though...who made them? Reminds me of Hexagon colour scheme. |
Post by prodigy // Nov 11, 2008, 2:47am
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Hey Paul.. don't feel bad, you are the icons master :)
By the way, can you tellme the size of the icons (29x29px??) and explain me how made the alpha channel?
Cheers :D |
Post by splinters // Nov 11, 2008, 3:32am
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Hey Paul.. don't feel bad, you are the icons master :)
By the way, can you tellme the size of the icons (29x29px??) and explain me how made the alpha channel?
Cheers :D
Aha, so it was you Prodigy. Take out a Buddy World subscription immediately as your pennance (all said in best Pantomime bad guy voice)....:D
Icons are 26x26.
To start, I make a 300x300 images bring in to PS then select the background colour and delete it leaving the icon 'floating' above the background layer (grey) in a photoshop document (although none of this affects the icon). I save each 'icon layer' as a 24 bit BMP for archiving. I keep one PSD file with all the different layers in it.
To process each one I load into PS then use the select tool (no AA) and pick the background colour with a toerance of 0, hit Q to make a quick mask then shrink the icon to 26x26. I then go into the channels menu, select the newly created alpha layer and hit I to invert it.
Finally save as 32bit BMP with Alpha....voila! |
Post by prodigy // Nov 11, 2008, 3:55am
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Nup! :D You're WRONG!! hahahaha
I have a small personal project, and i need to make a icon ;)
Haaa. .32bit BMP that's the trick!! thanks PAUL :D |
Post by TomG // Nov 11, 2008, 3:58am
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Actually, TurboSquid made everything themselves, it's a totally third party app. Prodigy I think is just asking for his own reasons :)
HTH!
Tom |
Post by prodigy // Nov 11, 2008, 3:58am
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Actually, TurboSquid made everything themselves, it's a totally third party app. Prodigy I think is just asking for his own reasons :)
HTH!
Tom
You're RIGHT!! hahahaha |
Post by splinters // Nov 11, 2008, 4:17am
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Darn you pesky kids, tricking an old timer like me...;)
If you need any help with that, just let me know Prodigy.
Sorry for the confusion...:confused: |
Post by prodigy // Nov 11, 2008, 4:18am
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Thanks! Paul. :) |
Post by bseaver // Nov 13, 2008, 6:40am
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Hey Guys,
I just wanted to let you know that we are monitoring these forums and welcome your feedback on the Tentacles plug-in. If you are having trouble you can post here and I will try to get back to you quickly.
-Thanks,
Buddy Seaver
TurboSquid QA |
Post by TomG // Nov 13, 2008, 6:43am
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Welcome Buddy, thanks for posting! I did want to mention that TurboSquid are already aware and working on both issues mentioned (the uninstall of V-Ray from the Package Manager, and the directory naming for non-English versions of Windows), since they are very responsive on these sort of issues :)
HTH!
Tom |
Post by trueBlue // Nov 17, 2008, 7:37am
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Hey Guys,
I just wanted to let you know that we are monitoring these forums and welcome your feedback on the Tentacles plug-in. If you are having trouble you can post here and I will try to get back to you quickly.
-Thanks,
Buddy Seaver
TurboSquid QA
I would like to suggest that your toolbar icons be the same size as trueSpace Workspace's icons. Instead of a standalone toolbar, I would rather you installed nested buttons within the small Main Workspace toolbar where the Plug in tool is located. Of course you would also have to rebuild it's toolbar prototype and save it to disk. So in a nutshell you would only see one icon with the rest of your icons in a fly out. And... if possible save the Default layout and or create your own even better. |
Post by bseaver // Nov 18, 2008, 5:56am
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Hi trueBlue, Thanks for your feed back. I have brought this up with our developers to consider.
-Thank You |
Post by frootee // Nov 18, 2008, 6:11am
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Thanks for bringing this up trueBlue. I must say that I concur. Making the icons the same size as the rest of the icons in the interface will allow the tentacles plugin to be more 'congruent' with the truespace interface. Also, nested buttons *by default* would be really nice, because it keeps the interface neater.
I am almost done with some other efforts so I will be able to spend more quality time experimenting with the plugin. I'm looking forward to putting stuff up there and seeing what happens. :)
Froo |
Post by 3dfrog // Nov 20, 2008, 1:44pm
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Tentacles is da bomb! |
Post by Steinie // Nov 20, 2008, 2:01pm
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Sorry but I won't even install it until the icon size is fixed, you condense to one icon, and fix the VRay problem. |
Post by bseaver // Nov 24, 2008, 11:06am
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Hi Steinie, We are currently working on a fix for the VRay problem and it should be coming soon. Menu bar improvements are also coming. I'm not sure they will be available at the same time as the VRay fix, but they won't be too far behind.
-Thanks |
Post by Steinie // Nov 24, 2008, 1:14pm
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Thanks for the update. |
Post by frootee // Dec 2, 2008, 5:13am
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Hey Buddy. It looks like we need a few categories for the tentacles plugin:
Plugins
Scenes
Scripts / Link Editor (LE) Creations
Models
Video Tutorials
'Still' Tutorials: Documents, PowerPoint Presentations
Also, a comments field to provide a brief description of the item (maybe 500 characters max). I have not studied the interface too much yet due to lack of time so if this is already there, then good on you!
In order to familiarize myself with the interface I will try to upload my powerpoint script/LE tutorial as soon as I can, hopefully this week. |
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