Rhino For Film.

All Points On

sam — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:58:54 +0000

Just a quick little script to unify Rhino 5's SolidPtOn and the traditional PointsOn command. As it is now, you have to differentiate which command to used based on the geometry, and that bugged me so this script will let you use one command on all object types. As it is a quickie, it isn't drag and drop, and it doesn't add any commands. So you need to add it to your Scripts to load when Rhino starts list, and make an alias for it yourself (the alias should be _NoEcho _-runscript allPointsOn )

Grab it here: PointsOn_100415
created by: Sam Page .
release date: 04-15-2010
works in: v5 only

Hatch Tools plug-in WIP: ver.20100113

sam — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:34:37 +0000

HatchTools plug-in WIP: ver.20100113

Still a little bare bones, but a lot better.

This plug-in will allow you to select lines, polylines, and curves to convert into a hatch pattern. No help file (and a pretty nasty warning if you do hit F1 when running the command), but it SHOULD (hopefully) give you a hatch pattern which you then can import back into Rhino using File->Import->*.pat. It adds one command htMakeHatch and the options are as follows:

The only command added at this point is htMakeHatch (ht is for Hatch Tools, hopefully there will be other commands that this plug-in enables down the line)
XPadding - This adds room to the overall bounding box of the hatch in the current CPlane X direction
YPadding - This adds room to the overall bounding box of the hatch in the current CPlane Y direction
Decimation Tolerance - Similar to the Rhino Convert command. Because all hatches are made up of straight line segments, this option lets to set how crude that conversion to polylines will be
MaxBboxGap - This may just end up replacing DecimationTolerance entirely as it is a bit more important to the overall quality. This is the maximum distance gap that any single line in a hatch definition can have. Not only are hatches all made up of straight lines, the are all infinite lines, so this lets you set how long a gap you can have relative to the bounding box of the curves selected to convert into a hatch. The higher the number, the longer the definition is, so I have been finding between 5 - 10 seems to be working.

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page .
release date: 01-11-2010
works in: v4 and v5 32 bit only

Motion Picture script update

sam — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:26:53 +0000

Motion Picture Script and ToolBar:ver.091013
This update includes the 2/3" camera system, which is used on a few HD broadcast cameras

Motion Picture Script and ToolBar is a script that gives you preset buttons for standard camera lens that are used in Hollywood, as well as lets you set the viewport aspect ratio to match common ratios. The script adds 3 commands:
Lens - change the lens length of a camera
Aspect - set the aspect ratio of a viewport (keeps the current width of the viewport, changes the hight)
Change_Camera - changes the camera system to match what type of camera you are shooting with (if in doubt, pick DIN 35)

If using the toolbar to run these commands you will need to set the camera system once before you begin (if you don't you will get a little message asking you to do so)

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page, Scott Schneider.
release date: 01-20-2009
works in: v4, v5

the rob woodruff plug-in.

j.andre. — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:17:39 +0000

This is a handy link to some mesh and point cloud tools.
Pointset Reconstruction Toolbar can take a point cloud of data, and turn it into a mesh surface. Set Designer (and Form-Z user) Rob Woodruff has a device that shoots survey points and digitally captures them. He often looks for Rhino Peep's to convert his point cloud data into a mesh surface. This is the tool to do that.

there are also some other cool tools described and included on the web page.

Download it HERE. (or grab it from the link above.)
created by: David Rutten.
release date: 03-06-2007
works in: v4, v5

Motion Picture ToolBar: ver.090120

j.andre. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:49:36 +0000

Motion Picture Script and ToolBar: ver.090120
Motion Picture Script and ToolBar is a script that gives you preset buttons for standard camera lens that are used in Hollywood, as well as lets you set the viewport aspect ratio to match common ratios. The script adds 3 commands:
Lens - change the lens length of a camera
Aspect - set the aspect ratio of a viewport (keeps the current width of the viewport, changes the hight)
Change_Camera - changes the camera system to match what type of camera you are shooting with (if in doubt, pick DIN 35)

If using the toolbar to run these commands you will need to set the camera system once before you begin (if you don't you will get a little message asking you to do so)

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page, Scott Schneider.
release date: 01-20-2009
works in: v4, v5

Hatch Tools plug-in first WIP: ver.090915

sam — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:56:48 +0000

HatchTools plug-in WIP: ver.090915

Updated 10.05.09 - rebuilt to fix loading issues, no usability changes

Here is the very bare bones version of the hatch tools plug-in, please use with caution as this is my first C++ plug-in. I would like however to start getting some feedback as to bugs found and features you want to see.

This plug-in will allow you to select lines, polylines, and curves to convert into a hatch pattern. It is pretty limited in its current state, no preview, no help file (and a pretty nasty warning if you do hit F1 when running the command), but it SHOULD (hopefully) give you a hatch pattern which you then can import back into Rhino using File->Import->*.pat. It adds one command htMakeHatch and the options are as follows:

The only command added at this point is htMakeHatch (ht is for Hatch Tools, hopefully there will be other commands that this plug-in enables down the line)
XPadding - This adds room to the overall bounding box of the hatch in the current CPlane X direction
YPadding - This adds room to the overall bounding box of the hatch in the current CPlane Y direction
DecimatioTolerance - (First bug, this should be DecimationTolerance ) - Similar to the Rhino Convert command. Because all hatches are made up of straight line segments, this option lets to set how crude that conversion to polylines will be
MaxBboxGap - This may just end up replacing DecimationTolerance entirely as it is a bit more important to the overall quality. This is the maximum distance gap that any single line in a hatch definition can have. Not only are hatches all made up of straight lines, the are all infinite lines, so this lets you set how long a gap you can have relative to the bounding box of the curves selected to convert into a hatch. The higher the number, the longer the definition is, so I have been finding between 5 - 10 seems to be working.

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page .
release date: 09-15-2009
works in: v4 and v5 32 bit only

Smart Target Script: ver.092409

j.andre. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:35:26 +0000

Smart Target Script: ver.09.24.09
Smart Target Script will add two commands, smartTarget and setTargetPlane. SmartTarget refocus your camera to center its view on any point you pick. Great for keyframing, and if you find that you are running into your target (zooming has become very sluggish). setTargetPlane resets the target depth to a chosen point. Its main use is for when you have set and locked down your camera view, but want to do a rendering with depth of field and have to set the in focus area.

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page .
release date: 09-24-2009
works in: v4, v5

Updates: This version fixes a bug that made it behave very badly when in parallel views. This cleans it up a bit, but there are still some bugs when setting the target in parallel view in which the CPlane is not perpendicular to camera (or world). There also seems to be a bug where the script may not stay loaded between sessions. Better, but not perfect.

Named View Manager: ver.090902

j.andre. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:35 +0000

Named View Manager: ver.090902
Named View Manager is a script that helps manage keyframe views and presents your model in a presentation like view.
It lets you: add, rename and delete Named Views; restore Named Views in quick and fancy ways; attach Layer States to Named Views; attach "CPlanes" to Named Views; create live slideshow presentations.

Download it HERE.
Updated by: Pascal Golay.
release date: 09-02-2009
works in: v5 only

Download it HERE.
created by: Mattias D'Hoogh.
release date: 06-16-2005
works in: v4 only

Camera Height: ver.090609

j.andre. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:52:09 +0000

Camera Height: ver.090924
Ever have a director or Production Designer ask, "how high is your camera?" well, push this button and give them the answer. The script will give you a height above the first object below camera. If there is nothing below the camera, then the script will give the height above the current active CPlane. Left click on the toolbar provided to set the height and level the camera, right click for setting height only.

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page.
release date: 06-09-2009
works in: v4, v5

Level Camera: ver.070620

j.andre. — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:05:20 +0000

Level Camera: ver.070620
Level Camera is a script that takes out any roll that is in the camera, and set the target z value equal to the camera z value.

Download it HERE.
created by: Sam Page.
release date: 06-20-2007
works in: v4, v5