This plugin does what the name implies; makes your cylinders round/pill-shaped. I whipped it up for my own use but thought maybe someone else would like to use it too.
Works with normal cylinders and SpecialMesh cylinders.
Update 7/9/2021
Added checkboxes for auto-model and auto-union.
Auto-model will automatically put your rounded cylinders in models
Auto-union will automatically union the spheres and cylinders.
can you make it so that it automatically makes it a union?
I don’t know it makes the cylinder into a
model but unions are VERY laggy and i
don’t advise having them, meshparts are better but if not, groups
Added an option for this in a new update!
I advise against this. Instead, I would make it a mesh.
Is there a way to turn a generated union into a mesh via plugin?
Again, don’t use a union. Unions create awful topology and thus create lag.
Instead, pre-make the capsule mesh in blender, and replace the cylinder with the new mesh instead.
I’m not that great at blender, so there’s probably something I’m doing wrong, but whenever I try making a capsule shape, it starts to look bad when it gets too lengthy:
Honestly, it might just be best to keep it separate. It’s better than a union.
Only stretch the center of the pill. Like a 9-slice GUI element except it’s 3-slice because 1D.
Like this:
pill.blend (840.5 KB)
The ends don’t get stretched, but the center does. You would use 3 MeshParts.
Even though this is a really nice plugin especially for beginners, I suggest creating whatever it is that you’re making round in Blender than creating it using this.
One Roblox sphere is 432 tris, and since you’re rounding a part, odds are half of those tris are being calculated for no reason and are just slowing down low end devices. Creating your rounded object in Blender as well as optimizing it (low amount of tris + smooth shading) will give you the same results but perform way nicer.
This scenario really only applies to those who are using this plugin to round hundreds of objects.
