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Torus Knot Plus Add-on for Blender 2.5

Tim Formica [Room335] · May 25, 2010

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Author Tim Formica [Room335]
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47 responses

  1. plrang
    25 May 2010 at 15:19

    quite good, it may be useful

    Reply
  2. Riccardo Covino
    25 May 2010 at 15:20

    cool tool, cool shading and cool music!! ;)

    Reply
  3. kram2301
    25 May 2010 at 15:30

    wow :D
    Really nice, what those new add-ons bring :)

    Reply
  4. invertedNormal (brian)
    25 May 2010 at 15:34

    dude!!!

    that will be very helpful, indeed =D

    thank you

    brian

    Reply
  5. Lasse R. Bruntse
    25 May 2010 at 15:40

    It would be great for making baskets and nest’s and stuff like that. Cool!

    Reply
  6. Mr blender
    25 May 2010 at 16:21

    THIS IS VERY COOL,….BUT THEN AGIAN ITS MAKING BLENDER LIKE ALL OTHER FREE

    PROGRAMS TOO SIMLE LIKE ALL YOU HAVE TOO DO IS MOVE PARAMETERS AND “VIOLA”

    YOU HAVE AN !!!!AUTO!!!!!MATICAL TOOLS DO THE WORK FOR YOU MAKING IT LIKE

    THIS PROGRAM, MEANT FOR SEMI-SMART PEOLPE, FOR BABIES AND SOON IT WILL JUST

    COLLAPSE AS ANOTHER PROGRAM WITH AVERAGE RATINGS CUS IT DOES THE AVERAGE

    WORK USING AVERAGE CHEATS, WHEREAS BEFORE IT STOOD ALONE FROM MOST

    PROGRAMS!!!!!

    NOW, DONT TAKE ME WRONG I WILL HAVE USES FOR THIS BUT I DONT THINK THAT

    BLENDER SHOULD EVER EVER EVER EVER B E A PROGRAM WHERE YOU BRING UP A BOX

    THAT SAYS “HUMANS ARE IN THIS SUBCATEGORY…PLANTS IN THIS SUBCATEGORY…ECT”

    BECUASE THEN BELNDER WOULD BE NOTHING IMPRESSIVE(KEYLINE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    HAPPY BLEDNING

    Reply
  7. JW
    25 May 2010 at 16:29

    Mr. Blender, there is something wrong with your capslock-button. It’s stuck.

    Reply
  8. madturtle
    25 May 2010 at 16:31

    I don´t no what Mr.Blender´s problem is : Too much or not enough of his medicine this morning.

    A nice new tool who make life mayby a little esiar – but for the hardcore people we should create an blender version with out tools.

    PEACEEEEEE

    Greetings

    Reply
  9. lian
    25 May 2010 at 16:34

    Mr blender, is an add-on. just don’t activate it.

    Reply
  10. Miffed
    25 May 2010 at 16:42

    Learn to spell, punctuate, and how to turn off your caps lock Mr. Blender. Ironic thing is, you came off stupider writing that post than all the people you were slamming in your post.

    “HAPPY BLEDNING”!! ;)

    **

    Awesome tool, wish there were more tools like this in Blender? Is it going to be a part of the main SDK or a python script?

    Reply
  11. Nixon
    25 May 2010 at 16:46

    looks like a cool addon..great work!

    @Mr. Blender
    You could tweak the interface of such automatic addons so it looks sort of confusing and complicated and everything would be fine and blenderific. Still you could take advantage of such improvements, without having blender loose its complex charme and Impressiveness :D
    Blender and Capslock are cruise control for cool!

    Reply
  12. Pure_bordem
    25 May 2010 at 16:56

    Great way to do Celtic Knots, I approve

    Reply
  13. Symphony
    25 May 2010 at 17:03

    lolol cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

    good job, cool music : ) )

    Reply
  14. Darrin Lile
    25 May 2010 at 17:27

    Let’s see how Shapeways handles that!! :)

    Reply
  15. Tansunn
    25 May 2010 at 17:30

    Coming soon to Blender 2.5 – Automated underwater basket weaving!

    In all seriousness, though, this is a pretty cool script, and I can see it having a lot of great applications for abstract renders.

    Reply
  16. Vermillion
    25 May 2010 at 17:48

    Good job! I like it.

    Reply
  17. newbie
    25 May 2010 at 18:01

    I’m with Mr Blender on this…….

    Lets get blender right bac to just the line, box and circle primitives

    Only Joking, Im still get off the floor laughing from READING TEH RATN!

    MR B If iM MAY CAlL U ThAT, yOu Have SoMe AddonS YoU WOuld like TO SHARE with US?

    Reply
  18. Iconoclast
    25 May 2010 at 18:05

    MrBlender
    I believe you’ve confused a Blender extension for a Pixar film. Please review one of each to refresh yourself on the actual work that needs to be done to do a film or game. Have a good day.

    I agree with Pure and Darrin on this.

    Reply
  19. melon
    25 May 2010 at 18:25

    AYE DOUBLE EE ASS OOOUH AM EE!

    Reply
  20. RJ
    25 May 2010 at 18:37

    Very nice job!! Great looking and useful Blender add-on.

    @Mr. Blender Ahhhh… ha ha ha. You are way to funny. Rant on “oh mighty God of all things Blender”.

    Please get back to us when you have modeled each of the shapes shown in the video BY HAND in Blender. And please share with us your great “skills”. BTW I hope your modeling skills are better than your spelling skills! LOL

    This is exactly what tools are for. To make things easier. The creativity is in how you use the tools and what they help you produce. Heaven forbid we ever move beyond just the command line interface ;P

    Reply
  21. ByronK
    25 May 2010 at 18:39

    I saw so many different objects in this video that would be so hard to create from scratch. I liked it very much. Some of the things I saw were baskets, balls of yarn and string, drums, etc. I like it whenever something is made simpler, especially when the ability to modify parameters can still give the artist a lot of control.

    Reply
  22. Terry
    25 May 2010 at 19:10

    Awesome script!

    I was going to say it was Knot Bad but then I thought no, I would not stoop to such a pun laden level!

    Reply
  23. Maria3x7
    25 May 2010 at 19:31

    I don’t know why but I can’t add (instal) the script in the user preferences>add ons panel

    Reply
  24. Senshi
    25 May 2010 at 20:05

    This looks awesome! Picnic baskets, weaves, birds nests, ropes, rolls of tin, yarn, abstracts.. This seems like a -very- useful add-on to have and master! =)

    @Mr. Blender I know what you’re trying to say, but this isn’t like Photoshop’s ‘Clouds’ filter. I has endless possibilities and will make a lot of things a whole lot easier. And let’s not forget, how many times do we use said Clouds as a starting point(!) for an amazing piece of art, background or texture? ;) Even something as basic as that (which is no comparison to this, really) can create beautiful things like abstract background, filler patterns or nebulas.

    @Terry LOL! xD

    Reply
  25. filip
    25 May 2010 at 20:18

    I am allready running with my little legs to tell it to my friends of the International Guild of Knot Tyers.

    Reply
  26. lexi
    25 May 2010 at 21:01

    To say it in German: “Alter”
    Couldn’t the parameters have a more recognizable naming, like inner/outer radius or alike. I know math and art can have a relationship.
    But useful anyway so i would remember if I need it.

    Reply
  27. Arnaud
    25 May 2010 at 21:23

    Very cool. It reminds me of knotplot. Knotplot used to be free (then I lost track)

    Great job, great addition to the Blender family. Thanks.

    Reply
  28. Wray Bowling
    25 May 2010 at 21:53

    That’s pretty cool. Whoever’s doing the demo should consider basket weaving. lol

    Reply
  29. Tomppa
    25 May 2010 at 22:05

    Use the latest version of blender from http://www.graphicall.org and it is already installed just activate the addon.

    I took version r-82987

    Reply
  30. MSZ
    25 May 2010 at 22:08

    Cool tool.

    Reply
  31. PhoenixGreen
    25 May 2010 at 22:11

    This is great. Can anyone tell me how to get the parameters menu as a pop up like in the video?

    Reply
  32. BunkieLove
    25 May 2010 at 22:34

    I would like to know this also…the menu thingy

    Reply
  33. Senshi
    26 May 2010 at 00:46

    I can’t test atm, but I’m pretty sure for the menu you have to press F6 immediately after adding the object. Good luck! =)

    Reply
  34. BunkieLove
    26 May 2010 at 01:41

    Thanks Senshi, it worked!

    Reply
  35. ralmon
    26 May 2010 at 05:06

    Wow cool. I saw a lot of balls of yarn at that time. Cool add on. Might not be useful for all applications but wow a mighty time saver if you ever did have to.

    Hey could anyone see it too? I think I see some stray strands one time or another. Is it meant to look like that?

    Reply
  36. shirokoff
    26 May 2010 at 08:17

    How can I do same shading (with shadows and all the stuff) in ObjectMode?

    Reply
  37. PhoenixGreen
    26 May 2010 at 08:23

    Thank you Senshi your suggestion works

    Reply
  38. eks
    26 May 2010 at 09:02

    hai, anybody can make a rectangle curve script please

    Reply
  39. ROdrigo Guimaraes
    26 May 2010 at 13:01

    Oh my god! This is AWESOME!!!
    Thank you so much for adding this to Blender!
    Congratulatios! Really really, but reaaaally handy!
    Good work!

    Reply
  40. Magoo
    26 May 2010 at 14:06

    Great tool! Lots of amazing possibilities, love to see it in use with the array modifiers

    Reply
  41. mauro souza
    26 May 2010 at 14:19

    coooolll… cool music too… by hermeto pascoal, i guess.

    Reply
  42. Blendiac
    26 May 2010 at 19:35

    “Someone” needs to use this to make a whole stack of different background baskets for the Sintel folks.

    *looks around the room*

    Hey… Why’s everyone looking at *me*?

    Reply
  43. pixnlove
    26 May 2010 at 22:37

    My biggest regret is not being to contribute at that level…
    Thank you whoever you are for this fantastic tool.
    I so looking foward for the next Blender release…

    Reply
  44. Gridlost
    27 May 2010 at 01:44

    was it me or was Blender Fully rendering in real time? Is this the new Blender renderer? Looks like zbrush by by the way it was rendering but better.

    Reply
  45. Peter Jackson
    28 May 2010 at 22:15

    Hey, Mr Blender, you must really hate Maya with its Copy and Paste The Lord of the Rings facility…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O_h6N2Qms4

    Reply
  46. Rave_Zero
    30 May 2010 at 13:49

    just wow, this is amazing, so many possibilities, thanks for sharing.

    @Mr blender
    I know what you try to say but:
    computers were invented to make things easier and faster,
    and not for solving problems which you haven’t had before.

    Reply
  47. Sandking
    1 June 2010 at 07:54

    Well – it looks nice. But it’s completely useless for most of us. Why does coders focus on such things? Just another firework which will clutter overall image.

    Reply

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