[scott frizzle]

Here's a very cool script from the illustrious James Kaufeldt. I've been wanting a script like this forever, and mentioned it to James today, who turns this thing around a couple hours later just for the heck of it. I'm so jealous of people who can code.

Anyway, this script will import an image into C4D and automatically create a material with the image in the luminance and alpha channels of the material, and then create a plane with -z orientation and apply the material to it. Basically, it's a way to import a bitmap image into Cinema's 3d space without having to do all the manual labor.



If you haven't installed external scripts before, just:

- Open the script manager
- Click 'File' menu and 'Import'
- Find the CSC file and load it
- Once it's loaded, you can click-drag the little icon in the upper left corner of the script manager and drop it somewhere in your layout
- Save your layout
- Done

Here's the link:

http://www.scottfriz...ane_0.2.CSC.zip

Edit: In my original post above I neglected to mention that the plane created by this script has the same dimensions as the image you select, which is one of the best things about it.

This post has been edited by scott frizzle: 28 February 2007 - 01:48 AM

[Sao_Bento]

Three cheers for James for making it, and Scott for sharing it! - Awesome stuff.

[jeffrey]

sweet man, how easy u think itd be to customize this to do the same to a .mov?

[ynaka]

thank you!

[tcastudios]

jeffrey, on Feb 28 2007, 01:54 AM, said:

sweet man, how easy u think itd be to customize this to do the same to a .mov?

No changes needed. It works with .mov as well!

Cheers
Lennart

[C.Smith]

pimp. been wanting this exact thing. kudos.

[pixel_pimp]

that is RAD!

[JamesMK]

So, this is where all ye broadcast dudes hang out...

Anyway, just stopping by to say I'm happy to hear you all seem to find this script useful.

Since it appears it will be used by quite a few of you lot, I've made some additional adjustments. No new features or anything like that though, just a few internal safety measures to make it as reliable as possible:

- Added proper undo support
- Added a rudimentary sanity check to avoid performing anything if the user should happen to select a file that is probably not a bitmap texture (it simply makes sure that the X-dimension of the file is reportedly larger than zero)

Please grab the new 0.3 version here -> http://www.kaufeldt3...geplane_0.3.zip




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[the_Monkey]

You've made a lot of friends with that first post.
Thanks a bunch and welcome to mograph.



-m

[digspat]

Thisis awesome. The only thing I can't figure out is why the imported plane doesn't react to lighting. Any idea where I'm screwing up?

[Sao_Bento]

digspat, on Feb 28 2007, 09:00 AM, said:

Thisis awesome. The only thing I can't figure out is why the imported plane doesn't react to lighting. Any idea where I'm screwing up?

I don't have it in front of me, but that sounds like it might be adding the image to the luminance channel of the material, rather than the color channel. Just copy the image to the color channel, and turn the luminance channel off.

[scott frizzle]

Sao_Bento, on Feb 28 2007, 12:33 PM, said:

I don't have it in front of me, but that sounds like it might be adding the image to the luminance channel of the material, rather than the color channel. Just copy the image to the color channel, and turn the luminance channel off.

Yes, Sao is right, this script places the image into the luminance channel of the material. I'm sure it would be very easy to do a version that puts it into the color channel though.

[dumbo]

awesome. this script will be so useful. cheers guys

[Colin@movecraft]

Where can I send the beer? We all owe it to you for this script.



colin

[JamesMK]

Here's an alternative version that puts the map in the colour channel instead, for those who'd prefer that:

http://www.kaufeldt3...0.31_colour.zip

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[fluiddesign]

Does this script work for version 9.6? Having trouble getting it to appear in the Script manager, thanks for your help.

[JamesMK]

fluiddesign - nope, sorry, it currently only works in R10. I could theoretically make a 9.5+ version, but I don't have time to do that right now. Technically speaking, it should at least load into the 9.6 script manager, but I guess the .CSC format has changed a bit since then. And even if you could load it, the script wouldn't run anyway.

[fluiddesign]

OK, thanks for the prompt reply.

JamesMK, on Mar 5 2007, 12:24 PM, said:

fluiddesign - nope, sorry, it currently only works in R10. I could theoretically make a 9.5+ version, but I don't have time to do that right now. Technically speaking, it should at least load into the 9.6 script manager, but I guess the .CSC format has changed a bit since then. And even if you could load it, the script wouldn't run anyway.

[tcastudios]

You might try this tip by Rui Mac ( at http://3dattack.net)
Note the CallCommands note (as they can differ in R9 abd R10.

http://3dattack.net/...read.php?t=6665

Cheers
Lennart

[kurtzmedias]

Simply great !!!!!