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Create3DShapes
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Check out the newly added Create 3D Platonic Solid script: Watch demo video
This is a package of 6 7 scripts:
- Create3DBox.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DSphere.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DCylinder.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DPyramid.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DMengerSponge.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DFallingDominoes.jsx – Watch demo video
- Create3DPlatonicSolid.jsx – Watch demo video
They create the 3D shape using user-defined comp layers. Assign a layer to each side, and the script will position and scale them to build the shape of given size. Note that the same layer can be used for multiple sides. An option allows to parent each side layer to a Null 3D positioned at the center of the shape.
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- Create3DSphere UI
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- Create3DPyramid UI
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- Create3DPlatonicSolid UI
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- Create3DMengerSponge UI
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- Create3DFallingDominoes UI
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- Create3DCylinder UI
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- Create3DBox UI
Version History:
- v3.3 Data entry bug and foreign language compatibility with CS5.5 – Nov 2011
- Create3DPlatonicSolid v1.0 – Initial release (Aug 2010)
- Create3DBox v2.6 – Handles text justification and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DCylinder v2.6 – Code cleanup and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DFallingDominoes v1.6 – Code cleanup and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DMengerSponge v2.6 – Code cleanup and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DPyramid v2.1 – Handles text justification and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DSphere v3.2 – Code cleanup and CS5 compatibility (Aug 2010)
- Create3DSphere v3.1 – Resources folder is in parenthesis to speed up loading (Feb 2010)
- Create3DSphere v3.0 (Feb 2010)
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- Allows to distribute layers on sphere or ellipsoid (e.g. rugby ball, with controllable x,y,z-radius)
- Gain in speed using precomputed arrangements
- Can create giant sphere with up to 1000 layers, in couple of seconds
- Create3DSphere v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
- Create3DBox v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
- Create3DCylinder v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
- Create3DFallingDominoes v1.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
- Create3DMengerSponge v2.5 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
- Create3DPyramid v2.0 – Initial version on aescripts.com (Jun 2009)
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Hi guys I am running Ae 10.0.0.458 on mac os 10.6.8 and I am having the same issue with the cube script as Greg and Vlad. It worked beautifully a few times with some cardboard and paper textures but (I do not recall exactly what I did before it stopped working properly) then it just started creating the same exploded boxes. Any help would be much appreciated, I can see myself using this script often and would love to pay for a working version.
Thanks
hi
Hi,
I have the same problem as vlad
the shape is totally exploded, I work on CS4 macosx.
Anyone can help please?
hello, i ve instal my plugins on the “ScriptUI Panels” folder and afterfx don t want to make it .
It say “An error orrured when trying to open and read a resource file.”
Any ideas?
Thanks
Hello
I have the same problem as Eric.
Your answer was:
When I try to use the Create3DSphere script a message pops up saying that an error occurred when opening and reading a resource file.”
Which version of AE are you using, on which platform ?
Make sure you have the “(Create3DSphere_Resources)” folder in the ScriptUI Panels folder
Ok I’m using After effect CS5 on W7.
My scripts are in the ScriptUI Panels folder. I created a “Create3DSphere_Resources” folder because I didn’t have any. Is that correct ? And now ? Because I still have this message that drive me crazy ^^. Please Help !
Thank you very much
In the Create3DSphere_Resources” folder I put all the N1 to n999.jsinx.
thx!you’ re great for artistic behavour!
It would be nice if all these seperate scripts could be combined into one script/one window.
I tried to make a box but this is the result: http://i39.tinypic.com/28u6yxs.png I did everything exactly like shown in the demo video, so I have no idea why it doesn’t work…. Any idea? Btw i use AF CS5.5 and my operating system is Windows
Really cool plugin. Downloaded this couple of months ago and donated. Forgot to comment though
For som reason my cylinder gets screwed up… http://www.studiofets.com/img/cylinder.png Two layers end up higher than the other six… Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
This won’t download for me. The file download box is up and running but it has been that way for hours now.
Any chance of this being able to use shape layers? I love it already, that would just add another useful feature.
Hi, I am trying to make platonic solid with video’s on each side. How to I assign video layers to the sides?
Great Work! Best Script ive ever had – Pyramid!
Hi, I’m running CS3, I’ve installed the scripts in the ScriptsUI Panel folder. When I try to open a window in AE I get a script error saying the script requires CS4 or later. Can anybody help? Cheers.
No, wait. I’m an idiot. They work fine in CS5 when you follow the instructions and actually PUT the files in ScriptsUI. Doh!
Ah, if only these worked in CS5. They are wonderful, tho’.
Thanks man! Platonic Solids in a few clicks, I couldn’t be happier. Thanks for helping us animators spread some symmetrical love
Great script. I found this while searching for one I’d see a while ago on ae enhancers. The link is dead on the post so I was searching for an alternative. The one thing for me would be getting the layer of the sphere to be symmetrical. The guy on ae enhancers talks about the math to obtain this symmetry in his post, but I’m not sure if I can apply it to your script. Is it just a matter of getting the right number of layers for the specified radius?
Here’s the ae enhancers post: http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=160
Thanks and again great script!
Hey, any chance of a cs5 version of this coming out soon? Great script collection by the way-
Thanks!
works in AE cs5?
Amazing. Thankyou very much for sharing this.
Stumbled across your scripts after seeing something similar used to create some very cool graphics on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps4ogvyxtOs&feature=related
I like your scripts, they help. But could you upload addborder preset you are using xD i have a problem with borders xD
use the matte choker effect!
cheers, tom.
Erik Waluska and hldavenp are right: the movie has no sound, shows the screen blitzing out and freezing about halfway through, then blurts loud music in the last few seconds. It scared my cat.
So I’m sure the script is great, but it’s kind of hard to tell what’s going on in the movie.
I am having the same missing audio problem on the demo vids as Erik Waluska (12/24/2009) above. I’d really like to learn how to properly apply your wonderful 3D Shapes scripts.
Thanks a lot!
I missed to put the
Download/ZIP Archive is corrupt.
Bonjour Charles, j’ai un problme avec le script Sphere: quand je demande “distribuer” un panneau s’affiche: “script error: une erreur est survenue lors de l’ouverture d’un fichier de ressource”.
Ceci que j’essaie avec un calque de texte, ou d’image (multiplié).
Les autres scripts de volume marchent, bravo!
Merci
Eric says: “When I try to use the Create3DSphere script a message pops up saying that an error occurred when opening and reading a resource file.”
Which version of AE are you using, on which platform ?
Make sure you have the “(Create3DSphere_Resources)” folder in the ScriptUI Panels folder.
Hi there i love this script, But im having a few probs and any help would be much appreciated.
im trying to make a 3d city . when ever i try to parent a new 3d cube to another 3d cube the rotation/orientation values change and the layers rotate just a bit so the object is no longer symmetrical. is there some thing i missing?
You should parent the controller of cube 2 to the controller of cube 1. Does that help ?
I istaled de scripts in the UI folder (the folder was already there i didn`t created one) when i tryed to open the create 3d box, an empty window appeared.
what should i do?
pls help
AE version ? Operating system ?
I,
Very simple and usefull!
But, do you know how to get rid of the border. They appears when you add a light to the comp.
Thank’s!!
Pierre-Luc
Alpha Add blending mode sometimes helps to get rid of the little seam between side layers.
Hi, and first of all, thanks for these very usefull scripts.
However, I get the seams, and also when I spin a cube around it
does look like the layers are not aligned, there is a “edge” sticking out.
The alpha add does not fix this. Is there anything else I can do?
i applyed the matte choker effect (default settings) to my “cube comp” to get rid of the edges/boarders.
cheers, tom.
FYI – There doesn’t appear to be any audio except for music with the dominos video at the end , which is really loud. Also, the tutorial video freezes at 3 minutes and then resumes at 4 minutes.
Anyway to ‘squash’ the sphere into an oval shape, using the expression in the controller?
I’m assuming it’s in adding a second slider and calculating the vertical radius somehow?
Thanks, awesome script
You can create oval shape with Create3DSphere 3.1. With older versions, you can try playing with the controller’s scale (e.g. increase x or reduce y).
awesome, the movie with all of the together, gets glitchy in the middle, but the individual ones work great. Oh & these scripts are amazing! huge huge time saver for me, thanks a ton
the demo video doesn’t seem to work, is it just me? i’d love to see this in action, thanks!
Pesky videos. Should be fixed now, thanks for catching it. The demo video button has all 6 demo movies edited together and I also added each individual demo next to the script name above.
The demo video is for the batch processing script, not the 3d object script.
Thanks for pointing that out, link has been fixed