Author: François Guillet

Version: 1.5

Date: 2006/07/27

PolyMesh

This plugin features a polygonal mesh (4 edges or more sided faces) that can be created and edited within AoI. It offers the same features than the triangular mesh concerning texturing, animation, etc.

News:

1.5 version released. See the Release Notes.

Manual

The manual covers version 1.5 and can be read online or downloaded as a PDF file.

About

The PolyMesh plugin is still in development. However, it is stable, has now a fairly complete set of modeling tools and can be used on a regular basis. Some features available are listed below:

• Edge division
• Vertex connection
• Face/Edge/Vertex collpase
• Face/Region extrusion
• Vertices Inflate/Flatten
• Select/Close/Join Boundaries
• Edge Loop/Strip Selection
• Mesh Smoothing (Catmull-Clark)
• Bevel edges/vertices
• Live mirror mesh (up to 3 mirrors at once)
• Mesh Thickening
• Free hand face drawing

The screenshots below show a cube as created after selecting the Polygonal Mesh command from the tools menu and the same cube after Catmull-Clark subdivision.

The source package can be downloaded here. Uncompress the file in Art of Illusion source main directory and build the plugin using ant:

ant -f PolyMesh.xml