I’ve updated ResizeAlign with a better face selection behavior that does not require you to move your camera around as much to get the faces you want selected – in particular allowing you to select backfaces without repositioning your camera.
The new selection behavior guesses your intent when clicking near the edges of parts, selecting the adjacent face instead if it thinks it would be more useful to select that one (if you still want exact selection you can change the Selection Behavior setting).
E.g., quickly resizing some road sections together:
In addition I also cleaned up the UI to have icons for clarity, better text rendering and tighter layout, and use modern UI elements (while keeping the classic styling).
ResizeAlign now respects the “Join Surfaces” toggle in Studio as though you had resized the parts using the Scale tool: WeldConstraints/Motor6Ds will be updated correctly, Welds will be broken, and welds will be reformed in the new position if the Join Surfaces toggle is enabled.
Introduced a new “Dragger Mode”: While holding Ctrl you can now select and drag parts as though you had the Select tool selected. This lets you both position and resize parts using ResizeAlign without having to switch tools.
Very nice to see this plugin getting an update. However, when I updated the plugin in studio from the plugins menu, I ran into two issues:
Issue 1: The plugin would run into an error saying
attempt to index nil with CreateButton (on line 46)
Issue 2: The error above doesnt happen, but the icon itself doesnt appear. No other errors.
This is all temporary within your opened studio window. Opening a new place does not fix this issue, but restarting studio does. After restarting, the plugin works perfectly.
Hi Stravant, fancy seeing you again, wedge support is better as well now, but I still for the life of me cant select this one face, works on the other, round, part types, but why not wedges in this case?
Don’t get why only one side gets this, not fun when you gotta deal with past made builds, or material direction
Yeah, this is an unfortunate consequence of me combining the buttons for my plugins together into one toolbar. Convenient so I still do it, but it isn’t strictly supported by Roblox so some stuff like dynamically reloading plugins on update doesn’t work right when I do that.
I didn’t think that people used ResizeAlign much on WedgeParts so I never put much effort into making it work for them.
I’ll see if I can make an improvement to that too. I can probably improve the behavior it has significantly without much effort, since the current behavior is pretty much just what it happened to do for WedgeParts.
or material direction
Elaborate? Interested if there’s some need there I can fix too.
This is awesome! I’ve been using your plugins since I began building and I’m glad this one’s getting love.
This update is awesome. I sometimes have to move my camera inside parts to access faces. Selection behavior makes this much easier to do. Until the new icons, I legit had no idea what “extend up to” and “extend into” did. Thanks for the clarity!
Something I’ve been wanting for a long time is the ability to resize to a set interpolation (with an alpha) between Outer Touch and Inner Touch. That was a little hard to put into words, so here’s an image:
This would be useful for certain scenarios such as if I need to place an object in between the two faces (like a cylinder). There are probably tons of other use cases that I can’t think of right now.
On that note, another feature that would be a lifesaver is the ability to ResizeAlign with a rounded edge:
One note about MaterialFlip - Please implement a face selector like in ResizeAlign. I also use it for changing the axis of a part and it would be super useful to visualize which face I’m selecting rather than a static SelectionBox. I hope that plugin will get a touch-up too.
What’s the use case here? Do you ever need something other than 50%? I could literally just add an option that combines both things you’re asking for here, a 50% + join with filler part mode. I hate plugins that make you fiddle around typing in a textbox so I want to avoid that kind of config.
Hmm, how prominent a thing are you thinking? That seems a bit tricker because I imagine that people often care about what the material looks like at the edge of the part where it touches others, so I wouldn’t want to put a display element right around the edge. Maybe something mostly transparent but then it could be hard to see?
Thank you so much for this addition! You’ve just singlehandedly saved tons of time that would have been spent meticulously figuring out where to place a sphere. I’ve played around with this feature for a bit and I have no UX complaints, and the plugin knows whether to use a cylinder or a sphere in the right scenarios.
I’ve also taken a look at support for WedgeParts. The actual resizing works perfectly, however, I found that selecting the slanted wedge face is a little funky. At some parts of the face, it selects an entirely different face rather than the one it’s supposed to be selecting. That’s normal for selection behavior thresholds of 15% and 25% but for Exact Target that shouldn’t be happening. Here’s a clip:
Updated the MaterialFlip plugin to just use the new Highlight Instance to outline the whole part. I tried some stuff out but outlining the whole part just feels clearer than trying to do something to highlight the specific face you’re over, since it’s reasonably obvious whether you’re hovering the right face anyways as far as I can tell.
I actually did another pass trying to remove this error, and lo and behold I figured out a way to make it so you can reload all the GeomTools plugins without ever seeing an error. You’ll still see one more error the next time you update them because the system I built to fix it didn’t exist in the prior version (I tried ), but after that there should never be any more.
The plugin hasn’t been working for me since I updated it a bit ago. Every time I try to resize something it just extends on both ends of the brick and then doesn’t go where it is supposed to unless I spam click for a bit. Then it gets kind of close but still not exact.
Oh I just mean, “Save to File…” the place (or part of the place) that doesn’t work right and post the .rbxl file here so that I can look at it. And give me enough context to know what doesn’t work correctly, either describe what options you picked in the ResizeAlign UI or take a video.
It has been doing this in every single game I open, but here is one of the ones I tried testing it on. Test12.rbxl (37.1 KB)
I tried using pretty much every single option I could in the UI to make it work but they all had pretty much the same result.
), but after that there should never be any more.