Description

One tool to place object over any surface.

This plugins aligns the pivot point of a objects selection over surface other object. For example, it's useful to place trees over a mountain. Also may conforms a spline to follow the surface. This is a sample creating a wall in three steps:

Draw a spline and somes trees over the terrain	Apply Glue and a adapted spline it's created
Apply a outline over the spline, extrude it and the wall it's finished

Versions

2.1 - January 2000

• Fixed a bug in 2.0 version which cannot glue grouped objects.
• Now it's possible to glue splines.
• Following normal surfaces implemented.

2.0 - November 1999

• Now it works over any base object (meshes, patches or Nurbs)
• It allows to place in X, Y or Z axes
• Undo/Redo capabilities implemented.

Installation

Copy glue.dlu to any plugin directory of 3D Studio.

How to Use

Pick a base object with the 'Pick' button and select the objects you want to 'glue'. Finally, use the 'Glue Selected' button.

Axis

It lets to choose the direction (in world space) which glue will work.

Follow normal surface

The objects are rotated following the normal of surface

Spline Steps

When you glue a spline, the original object it's maintained, and the plugin creates other spline object. This parameter defines the maximum number of vertexs to create it. Use higher values for large splines or very detailed surfaces.