Ropeater Plugin - Duplicate Geometry by Dragging

I threw together an interesting plugin idea last night: Ropeater. You specify an offset angle and alignment mode and can repeatedly duplicate a part or model in that way by dragging on one of the handles. I’ve found it quite fun to play around with so far.

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Oh wow, this looks like something to when I’m bored and have nothing to do in studio, thanks for sharing!

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THIS IS GENIUS just imagine the wierd things u can make with this ty man

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This is crazy innovative! Looks like it would make organic curves a lot easier to build :slightly_smiling_face:

Out of curiosity, how precise is your plugin? Would any rounding errors compound over time, for example?

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It doesn’t do anything fancy internally to avoid building up floating point error. In my testing it wasn’t needed, I could make a 100 part ring with it and still have the ends visibly line up perfectly.

Let me know if it is a problem (with your use case) and I can try some improvements. There is some low hanging fruit I could implement to get a bit less floating point error.

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Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I am having a struggle because when I use this plugin on grouped models while rotating, It glitches in a unnecessary direction. Is there any way to fix this?