Intro to MeshTools
MeshTools is a package of procedural modelling and animation tools that gives you artistic control over scene geometry and spline generation. Every effect is non-destructive: stack and layer MeshTools objects in a hierarchy, adjust any parameter at any point and the changes propagate through the entire system without losing your base geometry.
What MeshTools can do
Section titled “What MeshTools can do”MeshTools works by placing generator objects as parents of your source geometry. Effects can be driven by Cinema 4D fields, shaders, vertex selections and textures; every parameter is keyframe-animatable.
- Mesh manipulation: inset, fold, scale, subdivide and remesh polygons procedurally
- Boolean & fracturing: complex fractal geometry with mtFractal (Dragon, Fern, Koch, Sphere, Tree)
- Spline generation: generate wireframe, outline and contour splines from any mesh
- Geometry projection: project points and geometry onto surfaces with mtPointProject and mtRayline
- Animation tools: drive growth, rolling and flowing effects from splines and fields
- Layered hierarchies: combine multiple MeshTools objects for complex, fully live effects
Here we see a Sphere primitive, on the left, set as Type Icosahedron. In the center image, as a child of a complex hierarchy of MeshTools features and, on the right, you see the final rendered possibilities.
In this image are two Platonics. The one on the right is a child of mtInset, with Offset settings applied.
Here we have two Torus primitives. The Torus on the right is part of a complex hierarchy, involving layered MeshTools features and a Spherical Field.
Animation of the effect of a Spherical Field object passing through a complex hierarchy of MeshTools features.
This image demonstrates the different spline effects - Wireframe, Outline and Contour on the same scene object.
Animation of the effect of mtShortestPath on the same scene object as above.
In this documentation
Section titled “In this documentation”| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| mtDualGraph | Dual graph mesh conversion |
| mtInset | Procedural polygon inset |
| mtPointProject | Point projection onto surfaces |
| mtPolyFold | Polygon folding and origami effects |
| mtPolyScale | Per-polygon scaling |
| mtSelect | Procedural polygon selection |
| mtShellGen | Shell and thickness generation |
| mtSubDivider | Procedural subdivision |
| mtEdgeSpline | Generate splines from mesh edges |
| mtShortestPath | Animated shortest-path spline growth |
| mtSplineFX | Spline-based effects and deformation |
| mtSplineSample | Sample geometry along splines |
| mtRayline | Raycast-based spline generation |
| mtFractal | Fractal geometry generation (Dragon, Fern, Koch, Fibonacci, Sphere, Tree) |
| mtRemesh | Mesh retopology and remeshing |
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