trueSpace 7.61 Unofficial Update Patches

[clintonman]

Remove Orphan Materials

Works properly with scene instanced materials
Removes unused scene materials
Fixes issue, steps below:

create object with 3 different colors
point edit select the last 2 color faces and separate them out from the mesh
remove orphans

result is the first material will turn white or if scene instancing is used the object navigation widget will disappear along with part of the 2 color object

replace "Fix Orphan Materials" inside of /Material Editor/Material Editor/D3D Material Converter/Fix Orphan Materials

Requires Clintons3dPlugin.rsx v1638445 (Oct 13 2023) or greater

This does not seem to work when the Materials node does not exist
Steps
Add Cube and Scene Instance
Delete the Materials node
Cube turns White
Run the Fix Orphan Materials script
Alert: "No orphaned Materials found in this scene"

That's the opposite of what it does. If an unused material, an orphan, exists it removes it. It doesn't add or create missing materials.

[clintonman]

UUFunctionSet Copy and Delete

This is a combination rsx plugin and script update that allows running the original trueSpace copy and delete without using script buffers.
The plugin has new commands added:
GetNodeValueInt will work like Node.Value for integers, but it will work inside toolbar buttons and function sets
GetNodeValueFloat for number values is the same - works in toolbar buttons and function sets
GetnodeValueString for text values will also read color values as text and matrix values as text

The GetNodeValueInt is used inside the UUFunctionSet to make running old style Copy and Delete. This was the motivation for these changes. I was following a tutorial and needed to record a macro using the copy, but it didn't record properly because the copy was run via a script buffer which is the only way to read node values in a functions set. The plugin function can be run inside the function set directly and so it can run the Delete directly. And this is compatible with the macro recorder.

The new required rsx plugin can be found here:
http://clintons3d.com/plugins/truespace ... index.html

new UUFunctionSet node with Copy and Delete changes is attached

[clintonman]

Material Converter

ui change:
label "D3D Compiled -> D3D Shader" changed to "D3D Base -> D3D Compound"
see manual chapter 2, section 2.8.4 Creating and Editing objects in the Link Editor

bug:

create cube with default material
material converter
D3D Compiled -> D3D Shader
D3D Material -> Instancing
error line 18 SetActiveMaterial

problem is Name value is null not ""
no node to set default value so needed a try catch when reading the name

[trueBlue]

This has gone through some changes and has not been released yet
Can you add your updates to this one?

D3D Material Converter.png (8.83 KiB) Viewed 613 times

There is a new Scene aspect too

Not so sure about the label change
If you read Chapter 5, they use Shaders through out the document
Not seeing Compound

[clintonman]

Changes added

[clintonman]

3D Unencapsulate gave error while using on an older scene. Problem was using an invalid value from the LinkedOutputNode command

before

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	//gather list of child nodes, nodes connected to the transform WldMatrix connector
	var children = [];
	for(var i = 0; i < numLinkedChildren; i++) {
		var child = Node.LinkedOutputNode(theTransform, "WldMatrix", i)
		children.push(child);
	}

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	//gather list of child nodes, nodes connected to the transform WldMatrix connector
	var children = [];
	for(var i = 0; i < numLinkedChildren; i++) {
		var child = Node.LinkedOutputNode(theTransform, "WldMatrix", i)
		if(child && Node.Exists(child)) {
			children.push(child);
		}
	}

Found another bug in the 3D Unencapsulate scripts

around line 117 it will add 3d groups to the delete list. so if you have nested 3D groups they will get deleted

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		//if transform node and is parent
		//if(Node.ConExists(newNode, "WldMatrix") && Node.LinkedOutputNodeCount(newNode, "WldMatrix") > 0) {
		if(Node.ConExists(newNode, "WldMatrix") && Node.LinkedOutputNodeCount(newNode, "WldMatrix") > 0 && Node.SubObjectCount(newNode) == 0) {
			deleteMeList.push(newNode);
			continue;
		}

replace the nodes inside "/Scripts/UUCommands/Encapsulate"

[trueBlue]

3D Unencapsulate gave error while using on an older scene. Problem was using an invalid value from the LinkedOutputNode command

before

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	//gather list of child nodes, nodes connected to the transform WldMatrix connector
	var children = [];
	for(var i = 0; i < numLinkedChildren; i++) {
		var child = Node.LinkedOutputNode(theTransform, "WldMatrix", i)
		children.push(child);
	}

after

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	//gather list of child nodes, nodes connected to the transform WldMatrix connector
	var children = [];
	for(var i = 0; i < numLinkedChildren; i++) {
		var child = Node.LinkedOutputNode(theTransform, "WldMatrix", i)
		if(child && Node.Exists(child)) {
			children.push(child);
		}
	}

Found another bug in the 3D Unencapsulate scripts

around line 117 it will add 3d groups to the delete list. so if you have nested 3D groups they will get deleted

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		//if transform node and is parent
		//if(Node.ConExists(newNode, "WldMatrix") && Node.LinkedOutputNodeCount(newNode, "WldMatrix") > 0) {
		if(Node.ConExists(newNode, "WldMatrix") && Node.LinkedOutputNodeCount(newNode, "WldMatrix") > 0 && Node.SubObjectCount(newNode) == 0) {
			deleteMeList.push(newNode);
			continue;
		}

replace the nodes inside "/Scripts/UUCommands/Encapsulate"

Where in these scripts can you add the following:
Space.RemEulerTrans(str)

Objects like the following will throw an error:

ERR Source object: /Scripts/UUCommands/Encapsulate/3D Unencapsulate LE Error: Microsoft JScript runtime error Description: Invalid procedure call or argument Error code: 0x800a0005 - (null) Line: 206, Char: 3 Script text: childMatrix = Node.Value(currentChild, "Matrix");

[clintonman]

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		if(isaNURBS(currentChild)) {
			childMatrix = Node.Value(currentChild + "/controlPointMesh", "Matrix");
		} else {
			if(!Node.ConExists(currentChild, "Matrix")) {
				Space.RemEulerTrans(currentChild);
			}
			childMatrix = Node.Value(currentChild, "Matrix");//add 3 lines above this one
		}

fix it just before the error line

[trueBlue]

That area looks like it is for NURBS

How about line 18?
3D Unencapsulate

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	for (var i = 0; i < numSelected; i++)
	{
		var currentEncapsed = Node.SelectionGetAt(sel, i);
Space.RemEulerTrans(currentEncapsed)
		if(Node.IsCamera(currentEncapsed)) continue;
		if(Node.IsLight(currentEncapsed)) continue;
		if(Node.SubObjectCount(currentEncapsed) == 0) continue;
		if(Node.IsRenderable(currentEncapsed)) continue;
		if(isaNURBS(currentEncapsed)) continue;

		CleanRenderAttr(currentEncapsed)
		UnEncaps(currentEncapsed);
		unencapsHappened = true;
	}

Not having much luck adding it to the other encaps scripts except the 3D Unencapsulate LE which is the same as above