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Manipulator Field Version 2 (UPDATE 2.01)

Roland.Reyer — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 08:29:17 GMT

Finally version 2 of the Manipulator Field is ready.

In version 2 the Manipulator Field brings some technical improvements.

the performance was improved
the direction of the "Around Axis" in the cube shape has been corrected
the effect of "Erode ID" has been significantly improved

In addition to the Manipulator Field, the Shelf now contains additional tools.

a "Sphere Field", a simple sphere manipulator with a scalar field
a "Box Field", also a whole simple scalar version of the field
a "Position Manipulator", creates a locator and connects the matrix to the bifrost graph - for convenience
a "Direction Manipulator", makes an arrow manipulator and connects the matrix to the bifrost graph - for convenience

IMPORTANT 1: the scripts for these functions can be found in a new MEL file.

IMPORTANT 2: if something seems not to work, or if you have trouble installing it - please let me know.

For the functions of the Manipulator Field I refer here to videos for version 1.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

Christoph_Schaedl — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:24:26 GMT

Thanks Roland those Manipulators are really handy.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

moiamy — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:44:12 GMT

Hello @Roland.Reyer

With V2.1 version when I want to add a second manipulator :

source addManipulatorField_2.mel;
addFieldManipulator_2( "", -1, 2);
// Warning: file: C:/Users/B/Documents/maya/2022/scripts/addManipulatorField_2.mel line 118: Unclear selection! Please select a Bifrost Board or one of its manipulators. //
// Warning: file: C:/Users/B/Documents/maya/2022/scripts/addManipulatorField_2.mel line 471: BifrostBoard doesn`t exist or has no Manipulator Field with that number //

I have selected in BG my Manipulator_Field compound before pressing the shelf button

Here is my shelf arrangement :

Does it speak to you ?

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

sepu6 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:11:20 GMT

Select the manipulator first then click on the button, so for example if you have `mf_0_volume` click on that first then the shelf tool with the green icon, and that will add another manipulator to be use with the same settings if you need a completely new one so they do not share the same setting then just click v2 button or simple ones.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

darioOrtisi — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:37:18 GMT

I get this error

source addManipulatorField_2.mel;
addManipulatorField_2( "");
// Warning: file: C:/Users/xxxx/Documents/maya/scripts/addManipulatorField_2.mel line 150: Please select ONE Bifrost Board, Bifrost Shape, or a connected object to create a Manipulator Field for //
// Warning: file: C:/Users/xxxx/Documents/maya/scripts/addManipulatorField_2.mel line 660: No such bifrostBoard exists >< //

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

sepu6 — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:05:24 GMT

Literally, I responded to the same question that you are asking. Read my response.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2

darioOrtisi — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:38:13 GMT

Yes i did it. There was something wrong in the scripts. I restart Maya, not work. I reinstall the plugins now is working.

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Roland.Reyer — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 08:27:53 GMT

There is a little glitch in the Shelf of Manipulator Field V2.0 (at least in my Shelf):

The "Cleanup button isn't working because it calls the wrong function.

Instead of ~~addFieldManipulator~~ it should call mf_cleanup("");

You can change this yourself or load the new package from here.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2 (UPDATE 2.01)

Christoph_Schaedl — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:09:10 GMT

Thanks for the update Roland!

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darioOrtisi — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:53:04 GMT

Thanks @Roland.Reyer it was that.

Re: Manipulator Field Version 2 (UPDATE 2.01)

darioOrtisi — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:18:22 GMT

@Roland.Reyer Iv'e ispected my scene, before cleanup by hand. I've noticed that the error i get, was when the graph has some non utilized nodes. I usually try multiple variant of connection, non erroring node. When i canceled this node, the addFieldManipulator add the manipulator correctly.

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