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So far all discussions in this thread seam to be related to the introduction presentation. I missed the live presentation, and only managed to tune in right at the point when the beer o-'clock joke was dropped. Wished I had missed that as well. Anyway, was able to rewind the stream by half an hour and watch the whole introduction thing. This really didn't wet my appetite to watch any of the next presentations. So ... did I miss anything? Just wondering. Today is day 2 of those presentations. Yet, I don't see any mention of yesterday's presentations, nor any discussion. Again wondering if there's anything worth to watch?

The original Dials was limited to the 3D viewport only. When I designed and implemented the plugin this limitation was fine enough for me. I only use this plugin to speed up performing actions when working in the viewport. However, recently I noticed this plugin would also be handy to have when using in combination with my Seamilar plugin. Allowing to have direct access to the UV tools when working in its own UV view window. So, I went looking for a way to extend the original plugin. Skipping the technical details ... (<yawn> boring!!!) I found a way to get it working for R16 upto R20 ... on Windows. Digged a little deeper and managed to get it to work on macOS ... "kinda". The Dials widget can now be used outside of the 3D viewport, even outside of the main Cinema4D application window. Tested on single and dual monitor setup. The plugin now has an additional colored ring behind the icons, allowing to contract against the background. The transparency of this new colored ring can be adjusted in the settings. I am providing this new version as a free beta-version to existing customers, with no further support. Unfortunately this version will probably never leave the beta stage, as there are just too many issues with R21. EDIT: While not being able to provide a same experience for R21 users as for R16-R20 users, I have managed to get something working for R21 (Windows and macOS). Albeit with limitations due to a bug in R21, which probably only will get resolved in R23 "at the earliest".

Sorry, had to go back to the legacy 2.5 theme. I really liked to new theme and especially its new text editor. However, I don't know if it is my system alone, or a recurring thing with other users as well, but since a few days the website is extremely slow to load at times. I am using Firefox 78.0.2 on Windows 10. With the new theme trying to make this replay took forever. The page loads up, but not entirely, and a popup bar at the top of the page keeps mentioning: "A web page is slowing down your browser. What would you like to do? ... stop it, wait". This didn't happen a few days ago. Switching to the legacy theme gets rid of this issue.

PolyDup v1.0 is done. Documentation finalized, implementation ported to R16 - R21, both on Windows and macOS. Plugin banner created and website updated (see first post).

I am starting to like the changes so far. Nice work. To me it looks like the new choice of colors (fore- and background) provides for a much more readable experience. At least that's how I notice it for the dark theme. The bottom bar icons ... yeah, I am not too sure about that one. But as it is work in progress, let's wait and see. One thing I found odd was that the bottom bar has a search icon, while the top banner area has one as well, with a text input field next to it. Again, since this is work in progress, that will probably be taken care of ... just wanted to point it out. Really nice work. Thanks for spending the time to make this forum more enjoyable.

I have added a few more options to the navigation widget. Here's a demonstration video showing the possibilities. Numeric inputs have been provided in the tool's Attribute Manager, allowing for fine tuning the position, scale, rotation. Quantization is available as well (using shift key during drag), with custom quantize values. Next I will be working on the documentation, before releasing the plugin to the public. Coming soon ...

Adding some features to the control widget. Next to the already available rotation adjustment it does now also allow to manipulate positioning and scaling of the injected extract. Right now you can move in X, Y and Z, rotate around Z, and scale in Z. Holding <shift> will quantize the movement, rotation, scale. Double clicking a control item will reset the X, Y, Z position, rotation or scale. There are still a few extra options I want to add before finalizing the plugin.

A long while ago I had uploaded a script, but cannot seem to locate it on the C4DCafé anymore. I cannot even locate the whole download section anymore ??? I tried to contact @Igor via PM, but the system mentions he cannot receive any messages (mailbox full maybe?), as such he will not even be notified by the trigger here. For your convenience I am uploading the script here ... (unzip the files into your scripts folder). Hope this helps. Points2Circle.zip

Update: I have not worked on this plugin for ages. Which means I haven't had the time to add support for the new node-based material system introduced in Cinema4D. Because of this I am provided the plugin here, free of charge, for anyone who still might take advantage of its feature set. The latest version (available for download at bottom of first post in this thread) should work on R17 - R21. I haven't tested S22, since not available to me, so feel free to provide feedback if it does. It definitely does not work on R16 and previous, and I do not have any plans to spend time in making it work in those versions of Cinema4D. There is no documentation available, except for the information provided in this thread. If anyone would be interested in providing detailed documentation, be it written or as a video tutorial, feel free to provide a link here. PS. I do want to keep this plugin exclusive to C4DCafé. As such, please do not distribute or upload the plugin anywhere else. Please respect the work of others, and don't claim credit for things you snatched somewhere.

Beta 4 available for download (at bottom of first post). While my current main focus is on developing for R20 (the latest version I am happily using) I do have spend the necessary time to port the plugin to versions R16 to R21, both for Windows and macOS. Unfortunately, a bug in R16 (maybe R17 as well) seems to interfere with pasting geometry. As said, for now I am focusing on R20, and will look for a workaround for the R16-R17 bug later on ... if there would be any interest for these versions. I have no access to S22, so cannot test if the R21 version of the plugin will run on that subscription version.

PolyGnome could do this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAfiZrS9PA

Sorry, you've lost me there. The only difference at this point in time is that PolyDup can automatically detect how to orient the to-be-pasted geometry for a best fit, and it allows interactive rotation of the to-be-pasted geometry. Apart from that PolyGnome is identical, and has a whole library management. I do intend to extend PolyGnome to have auto-orient, interactive-rotation, and preview ... but I don't expect this to still happen before Q3 2020. I am really trying to picture your "merge the open ended selections in various combinations of new "closed" geometry" ... but it draws a blank. Care to elaborate what you mean?

Now THAT's some feedback. Thanks for bringing up these points, Dave. Some of the posted demonstration video show this already, but it sure is important to mention this. The geometry copied from one object is not limited to be pasted to the same object. It can be pasted onto any polygon object, of the current scene or any scene which is currently opened in Cinema 4D. You can thus copy geometry from object A in project B, switch to project C and paste the geometry onto object D ... When copying geometry it is "temporarily" stored into a selected slot. I mean "temporarily" as it will be overwritten with any new geometry you decide to copy and store into that same slot. At this point in time 5 slots are available. This plugin is meant to copy/paste geometry on the fly. It isn't meant to actually store the copied geometry into a library, which is what PolyGnome allows. However, I might provide a future update which allows a way to "export" the copied geometry towards PolyGnome's library. But nothing has yet been decided in this regard. Alternatively, it could be possible to provide a way to extend the number of available slots. But as any application allowing to copy/paste content to and from the clipboard is limited to a single item, I figured that having a way to copy/paste a few items would be enough ... without the need of having to provide a whole library management system. I might misunderstand your point, but PolyDup requires at least an open end in the copied geometry. Contrary to PolyGnome, PolyDup does not allow for welded or floating assets. With PolyDup the copied geometry is always welded when pasted. Replacing geometry will currently work, but only if the geometry matches in size. In future updates additional widgets might be provided to adjust the pasted geometry. Currently the plugin provides visual feedback if selected polygons do not match with selected geometry to be pasted. This is based on number of polygon stitches that are required to weld the geometry to be pasted with the existing mesh polygons. For now the plugin requires a matching number of stiches between mesh and pasted geometry. With this plugin I do not have the intention in duplicating the effort of PolyGnome, as such will not provide a way to build up libraries of assets. However, as mentioned earlier, I might provide a way to export copied geometry towards PolyGnome. Again, thanks for the feedback. Highly appreciated!

Plugin will be available for purchase when completed, from Tools & Pixels website. In the meantime I have picked up development of this plugin again. I have added a rotation widget, allowing to adjust the angle of the extract prior to pasting it into the destination mesh. I am thinking of also allowing to adjust position and scale with such widget. A new beta will be provided shortly ...

Hi, sorry for the late reply. The beta file has been removed as it was becoming obsolete. This topic has had over 1300 views, a handful of downloads ... and only a single person provided feedback. I thus need to realize that not many are interested in this plugin, and as a result of that I am heavily reducing development time in favor of other work.

Spend some time working out to visualize a preview of the copied polygons to be injected into the mesh. More changes to come ...

Looking for feedback on the current state of the plugin. Originally I had planned to provide selection tools as part of the plugin. But since you can simply use the native live-selection, loop-selection and fill-selection to do all the selection tasks I don't really see the point in duplicating these features. Besides, if you also have the Dials plugin it's easy to create a setup where you have all necessary tools grouped into a dial, accessible by a single shortcut. An idea might be to provide an internal dial-like functionality to easily access the different extract slots, to paste from / copy to. Activating this dial via right mouse click. I am not sure if the concept is clear of using the CTRL key (CMD on mac) to activate the copy functionality? An alternative idea I had was to hover over the selected polygons and use the CTRL-C or CTRL-V keystrokes to copy or paste. Without the need of a mouse click. Next, I am not too happy about the identification of the extract slot. I wasn't sure people really wanted to spend time naming these extracts, as the whole purpose of the tool is to quickly perform a copy/paste of part of a mesh. Compare it with copy/paste a part of a sentence in a text editor to rearrange the wording ... or copying part of an image to in an image editor. You're not exactly naming the item you copy, also because you only have a single item in the clipboard. Here, with the possibility to have up to 5 items "in the clipboard", I thought it would make sense you could identify which of the slots of the clipboard you want to interact with. For now each slot is made up from the name of the object you are copying from, appended with the lowest point index of the part you are copying from. In most cases this would provide for unique names. Maybe a different color per slot might be easier to identify than using a name? I also had thought of taking a screenshot of the part of the mesh being copied, to be used as a thumbnail. But displaying 5 thumbnails would probably take up too much space in the attribute manager. And in the end, I am not even sure many users will want to use this tool for more than copy-pasting a single item in one session. As such, there is no need to identify things. Suggestions welcome ...

Probably not the smartest move to bring this out, while all attention is to the newly released S22, but here goes. NEW in beta 3: The original plugin allowed to copy and paste a single extract. With the latest version you have up to 5 slots to hold an extract. Select a slot in the Attribute Manager to use. If the slot is empty you obviously can only use it to copy an extract into. Once a slot is filled you can then use it to paste/inject into your mesh. The new version also allows to use selected edges around a hole in the mesh in order to paste the selected extract. You do not need to be in edge mode to be able to use edges, nor do you have to be in polygon mode to use polygons. Although it helps in visualizing which edges or polygons are selected if you are in one or the other mode. For now, I do not limit to use edges or polygons to a particular mode. Depending feedback I might provide this limitation if it is more appropriate. And as pictures tell more than many words, I have created a short video to demonstrate the process ...