jake2k Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 After making lots, and I mean lots of 3d images in pdn I started getting annoyed with the lengthy way I had to stretch or extrude my image to make it 3d and I started thinking about making a plugin. Unfortunately I shortly figured out that I am horrible at coding... anything. So I come to you with my humble plea for this tool to make life easier for all those who wish to journey into a third dimension of art. Basically the task would be to take an object on a blank canvas and use this plugin to stretch or extrude that object in whatever way desired by duplicating it and moving it up, down, over, etc one pixels length then repeating this step as many times as needed thus creating a 3d effect. The UI could have something similar to the "align object" plugin (or maybe an angle orb for more control) so the user can choose the direction of the extrude and then a slider to determine the length of the extrude. Theres probably other options that would be useful to this effect but i can't think of any right now. So it seems like this wouldn't be that hard of a thing to code but then again what do i know :oops: . The only thing I ask is that someone who has a bit of experience with making plugins try this and not someone who just started for obvious reasons. So can anyone make this plugin? Thanks for reading Quote ^Click to visit my Flickr Gallery^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Ryan Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 It almost sounds like you are asking for something similar to Liquify which comes with Adobe Photoshop, a plugin I will request until I get it, lol. But I agree with you entirely on the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake2k Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 No it's nothing like liquify, sorry lol. I'll try and add some pics later Quote ^Click to visit my Flickr Gallery^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barkbark00 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Top is start image... Light source selection would be very important. Quote Take responsibility for your own intelligence. 😉 -Rick Brewster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake2k Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 I just found out that pyrochild's outline object plugin can produce this effect but since barkbark00 made a great suggestion for a light source option I will keep this request open for debate instead of asking for it be closed Quote ^Click to visit my Flickr Gallery^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 The best way to do this would be to extend Shape3D... if only MKT was around or had open-sourced it. *sigh*. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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