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Commercial Tools / Re: Delete Faces Modifier
« on: May 01, 2020, 08:35:19 am »
Unfortunately, there is no way to have the clean version (devoid of dead verts/faces) and keep face order. The previous implementation deleted the faces from the mesh that you see, but they still existed in the data--and because they still existed, face order was preserved. In the update, the dead faces get cleared--meaning that face IDs that are deleted get filled with previously higher face IDs. There is no way to avoid this.

A workaround is to use the older implementation and clean at the end. But the current implementation is the correct way it should be done so I will keep the current logic in the modifier. It's unfortunate this affects previous usage that has topology-dependent modifiers above, but I didn't notice the issue until you posted about the issue. My habit is to avoid using topology dependent modifiers whenever possible--and the situations I built this for didn't highlight the issue in my own usage.

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General Discussion / Re: Is it possible to import ropes in WallWorm?
« on: April 26, 2020, 03:40:42 pm »
If you want to make polygonal ropes or wires, simply make splines in Max and set them as renderable splines in the viewport. Those can then export as models with WWMT.

I don't have a function for converting move_rope/keyframe_rope into splines right now. I had thought about this in the past, but I never got around to it. I'll consider it when time opens up.

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Commercial Tools / Re: Delete Faces Modifier
« on: April 06, 2020, 10:16:24 pm »
I have loaded an update to Delete Faces that removes dead structs now. This update is included in the plugin for 3ds Max 2018+.

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Commercial Tools / Re: Delete Faces Modifier
« on: April 06, 2020, 12:52:14 pm »
Sorry for the long delay. I have implemented a fix and recompile for Max 2018-2021. I will release that update this evening.

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Commercial Tools / Re: Delete Faces Modifier
« on: March 08, 2020, 03:13:47 pm »
I will look into it. For now you may want to use the SelectFaces Modifier with a Delete Mesh modifier above. This will likely solve your problem in the meantime.

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Commercial Tools / Re: Delete Faces Modifier
« on: February 29, 2020, 04:03:51 pm »
Can you send me a Max scene demonstrating this? I could not replicate the problem.

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Wall Worm News / Wall Worm Pro Now Free
« on: February 14, 2020, 03:31:53 pm »
Wall Worm v5.0 is now out. With it comes a change in the licensing and distribution. I have opted to release all of the current commercial tools and plugins developed by Wall Worm as free downloads. Wall Worm Pro Pack (which includes Wall Worm Pro and all commercial tools) is now the default download for WWMT. There are several reasons I made this decision. Part of this is because I'm about to make a significant career change in the coming weeks that will affect my ability to spend time with customer support. I will share news of what exactly that change is when it can be made public.

This does not mean that the Wall Worm projects are coming to an end. Far from it. It's just that I've reached a stage where I feel that releasing the tools freely ensures the broadest usage. I want to continue seeing the WW community grow.

For all of the people who have supported me and my work over the years, thank you! I hope that you all continue to get enjoyment out of my work.

:)

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 23, 2020, 11:27:36 pm »
Did the updates fix your problems?

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Wall Worm News / Wall Worm 4.3.20 Released
« on: January 23, 2020, 11:26:41 pm »
Version 4.3.20 released on 1-23-2020

   * Worm Face: Fixed bugs assigning brush side to decals dropped onto sculpt meshes.
   
   * Entities: Fixed function in entities to assign brush side IDs picked from some objects.
   
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Version 4.3.19 released on 1-23-2020

   * Worm Face: Fixed Critical Bug dropping a texture onto a sculpt mesh that could remove a displacement from the scene.
   
   * VMT Browser: Updated VMT Browser to allow sending a material over to Worm Face.
   
   * Worm Face: Updated Worm Face UI to be more friendly (larger preview).
   
   * Worm Face: Removed the Convert to Poly Option in Worm Face. Now limited to specific object types for setting face Materials: Editable Poly, Editable Mesh and CorVex.
   
   * Worm Face: Updated Worm Face to assign materials to CorVex sub-sections when dropping materials. Requires latest version of CorVex (available in Wall Worm Prop Pack).

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Version 4.3.18 released on 1-22-2020

   * Replace Models: Added a button to browse for MDLs from the game folders.

   * Replace Models: Updated the Replace Models floater to allow selecting MDL nodes that do not currently have a model path.
   
   * Replace Models: Fixed a bug when using the Paste Modifiers option in the Replace Models floater.
   
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Version 4.3.17 released on 1-21-2020

   * Visgroups: Added new setting into Visgroups called Exclude from VMF. When on, any object in any visgroup tagged to be excluded will not export into the VMF.
   
   * VMF Exporter: Added support for the new Visgroup option to exclude from a VMF.
   
   * CorVex Spline: Fixed bug generating a CorVex Spline from a CorVex whose spline is being edited to add a new sub-spline (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * CorVex: Fixed CorVex missing end block in Wall Mode when using a Border Spline and Interpolate turned on (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * CorVex: Fixed CorVex skipping the last point in some cases when using a closed CorVex Spline (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
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Version 4.3.16 released on 1-21-2020

   * CorVex Spline: Added an Offset value to CorVex Spline that allows offsetting the splines in the Z axis (Wall Worm Pro Pack).

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Version 4.3.15 released on 1-21-2020

   * CorVex Spline: Fixed bug in CorVex Spline when using End Caps but no base lines (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
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Version 4.3.12 released on 1-20-2020

   * ShellVex: Added mesh caching option to speed up ShellVex (Wall Worm Pro Pack).

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Version 4.3.13 released on 1-19-2020

   * Soundscapes: Updated Soundscape tools to play sounds by double-clicking sounds in sound lists.
   
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Version 4.3.12 released on 1-18-2020

   * MAP Exporter: Fixed bug sending MAP file to compiler in level exporter.
   
   * Point Entities: Fixed errors assigning some entity parameters to some entity types in Goldsource.
   
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Version 4.3.10 released on 1-17-2020

   * Materials: Updated the general material exporter to allow VertexLitGeneric to be honored in export window.
   

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Wall Worm News / Wall Worm 4.3.9 Released
« on: January 17, 2020, 09:13:48 am »
Version 4.3.9 released on 1-16-2020

   * CorVexSpline: Added ability to include/exclude by Floors from source CorVexes (Wall Worm Pro Pack).

   * VMF Importer: Fixed bug setting MDL solid state on VMF import.
   
   * WWMT: Added new button to regenerate the hulls of clusters in the cluster info rollout.
   
   * Convert Scene to Model: Fixed bug creating clusters in older versions of Max.
   
   * Visgroup Manager: Fixed bug in the Visgroup Manager for older versions of 3ds Max.
   
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Version 4.3.5 released on 1-14-2020

   * CorVex: Fixed bug with new snapping methods (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * CorVexSpline: Added support for multi-floor CorVexes (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
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Version 4.3.4 released on 1-14-2020

   * Visgroups: Added several new AutoVisgroups dealing with Shape types.

   * CorVex: Fixed bug when two points from splines are less than 1 unit apart. This was causing mesh generation errors that could corrupt the viewport. Now CorVex skips such points (Wall Worm Pro Pack).

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Version 4.3.3 released on 1-13-2020

   * WWMT: Fixed bug exporting some jiggblebone constraint range values.
   
   * Soundscaper: Fixed bug in Soundscaper introduced in 4.3.1.
   
   * CorVex: Fixed bug in CorVex when using a CorVex Spline with a spline setting to anything other than "All" (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
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Version 4.3.1 released on 1-8-2020

   * Soundscapes: Added new Soundscape Manager to view and edit soundscapes in the scene.
   
   * Soundscaper: Updated Soundscaper to work with new Soundscape Tools custom attributes.
   
   * Entities: Added new properties to the env_soundscape and env_soundscape_triggerable entities to set soundscape properties to pass into Soundscaper.

   * VMF Exporter: Fixed bug with corrupted VMF Exporter Presets when saving a preset after exporting a scene.
   
   * Entities: Fixed bug in WW Pro Entity UI that caused MAXScript error when using the pick object button for elements like Pick Parent, etc. Fix is only in Max 2018+.
   
   * System: Added check for availability of windows.processPostedMessages() to fix bugs with older versions of Max (before Max 2011).
   
   * RMF Importer: Fixed bug importing RMF introduced with the Visgroup updates.
   
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Version 4.2.17 released on 12-22-2019

   * CorVex: Added Edge Selection settings into CorVex (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * Modifiers: Added SelectFaces and DeleteFaces modifiers (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * PropLine: Added new Midpoint distribution method (Wall Worm Pro Pack).
   
   * VMF Exporter: Added support for exporting single-entity brushes from complex geometry objects (like CorVex) for entities that only allow one solid per entity. Currently applied to func_areaportal and func_areaportalwindow entities.
   
   * VMF Exporter: Added enforcement of the "tools/toolsareaportal" material on func_areaportal regardless of the materials on the object in the scene.
   
   * VMF Exporter: Added current FGD and Max Source file to the VersionInfo block of a VMF file.
   
   * VMF Exporter: Will now use a global UV for any face using a material that has new option in Materials called "Export Using World UVs".
   
   * VMF Exporter: Added support to increment targetname of entities that are part complex entity brushes and have the new Keyvalue settings for using unique entities and unique names.
   
   * Entities: Added new settings in the Keyvalue custom attribute that can force the VMF exporter to break concave brush entities into separate entities as well as increment the targetnames if desired.
   
   * Materials: Added new option to the Source Material Custom Attribute named "Export Using World UVs" that will force materials using it to project from world axis closes to face angle. Useful to reduce texinfos for materials like tool textures, etc.
   
   * Settings: Added new global Materials setting called "Use World Aligned on Known Tool Textures". When on, imported VMT materials will get the "Export Using World UVs" setting turned on. Currently, this applies to these tool materials: toolsnodraw, toolsskybox, toolsclip, toolsskip, toolshint, toolstrigger and toolsinvisible.
   
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Version 4.2.9 released on 12-1-2019

   * Brush Mode: Updated Brush Mode to detect if a material added to an object in Brush Mode has Real World Scale on. If so, will turn on/off that setting on created geometry if the new geometry has the Real World Scale property.
   
   * Brush Mode: Added support for a Sphere primitive to be tagged as a brush in Brush Mode.
   
   * WWMT: Fixed sequence event formatting in QC for CS:GO and some other mods.
   
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Version 4.2.7 released on 11-26-2019

   * System: Fixed bug in WW Pro SMD Exporter related to 3ds Max 2020.3.
   
   * Toolbars: Added two new toolbars to Brush Toolbar to create CorVex Splines from selected CorVex nodes.
   
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Version 4.2.6 released on 11-15-2019

   * CVS Report: Added Hull count to MDL report.
   
   * MDL Import Utilities: Added option to import MDLs based on expensive hull counts.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Removed some duplicate sub-splines in some closed spline sections of CorVex Spline.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Added new Material ID setting for CorVex Spline. Can be used with CorVex nodes to set specific IDs for CorVex sections derived from the splines.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Removed some duplicate sub-splines in some closed spline sections of CorVex Spline.
   
   * Toolbars: Added two new buttons to create CorVex Splines from selected CorVex nodes.
   
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Version 4.2.4 released on 11-5-2019

   * Extras: Added a 3-Point Align macro.
   
   * Macros: Added macro to explode selected objects by their materials.
   
   * CVS Report: Fixed report excluding WWMT Helpers in some scenes.
   
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Version 4.2.3 released on 11-4-2019

   * Toolbars: Added new button called Clean for Brushes. When pressed, will tag selected objects to brushes and add several modifiers to the object: ReDeform (if available), Brushify (if available) and Turn To Poly with Remove Mid Edge Vertices turned on.
   
   * Brush Tools: Updated the WW brush tools to create Box, Cylinder, Pyramid and a few other primitives to automatically keep the length, width and height segments set to 1 when creating the geometry.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Fixed bug loading in versions prior to 3ds Max 2016.

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Version 4.2.4 released on 10-30-2019

   * VMF Importer: Added new button to "Un Sky" objects to convert 3D skybox items to scene scale and then tag them as 3D sky objects.
   
   * VMF Importer: Fixed bug importing a VMF when it defined visgroupids starting at 0 instead of 1.
   
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Version 4.2.3 released on 10-22-2019

   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Fixed some bugs in CorVex Spline when using some settings on Brush Mode Corvexes.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Fixed PropLine not distributing along an Arc spline.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Added support in PropLine for using Spacing, Divide and Size on all shape classes instead of just Line, Border Spline and CorVex Spline.
   
   * WWMT: Removed the -game parameter from the studiomdle.exe call when targeting Goldsource.
   
   * WWMT: Fixed the option to load a MDL in HLMV after exporting a model to Goldsource.

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Version 4.2.2 released on 10-16-2019

   * VMF Exporter: Fixed VMF exporter not honoring a PropLine's As Train setting.
   
   * Wall Worm Pro Pack: Fixed PropLine's Convert to Train function not setting up all proper values.

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 14, 2020, 02:56:43 pm »
Please update WW and see if your errors are now gone.

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 10, 2020, 10:31:18 pm »
Sorry for the confusion. I was asking for you to test that line of code to make sure my fix would work (which I did not actually load to WW yet and running that code doesn't actually fix the problem--it simply confirms the fix I will implement). Since the code above does not crash it means my fix will work and I will add it into the next update that will hopefully cause both errors you reported go away.

Out of curiosity, have you considered using a later version of Max? There are so many nice features since 2010 was released. Max 2020 is the best version of Max to-date.

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 08, 2020, 10:50:56 pm »
To test my fix, can you open the MAXScript Listener (F11) and paste this line in:

Code: [Select]
( isProperty (DotNetClass "System.Environment") #Is64BitProcess AND ((DotNetClass "System.Environment").Is64BitProcess))
Then hit ENTER.

It should print false (I'm assuming this since your DotNetClass doesn't have that property). It should not crash, however.

Please confirm also if you are running a 32-bit version of Windows or Max. I haven't had a 32-bit version for testing in probably a decade! :)

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 08, 2020, 10:21:46 pm »
OK, thanks for that info. I will look into that one as well.

I take it you are running the 32-bit version of Max?

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Bug Reports / Re: MaxScript Exception on install
« on: January 08, 2020, 04:46:26 pm »
I have updated WW to check for compatibility with the function called in your error log. Please update and let me know if it works in 2010 now. I'm flying blind but feel confident that the issue is now fixed.

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