SMART OUTLINE (www.smart-page.net/smartoutine)

VERSION 1.2


Smart Outline is a spline object plugin for Cinema 4D

It creates an outline of a given spline just like the 
"create outline" tool,but with animateable offset/distance. 


FEATURES:

    * acts as a real spline object
    * simple to use - just drag the sourcesplines into it or use the linkbox
    * works with all spline- and NURBS-objetcs - can be lofted and extruded
    * also outlines animated, deformed splines and is deformable itself
    * supports mixed object hierarchies
    * allows to keep/reverse the resulting outlines pointorder
    * can preserve or flatten the source transformation
    * new feature: chamfers the resulting spline 
    * supports C4D R10 and all newer versions for PC- (32/64bit) and Mac
    * its free!



INSTALL:

Just unpack the "smartoutline"-folder into your /plugins
directory within Cinema 4D.


USEAGE:

Simply drag any spline type object into Smart Outline.
You can open the smartoutline_demo.c4d to see examples.




LIMITATIONS AND KNOWN ISSUES:

- when used with the NURBS-object "loft", Smart Outline
  updates only on user-input due to a limitation of C4D.

- Smart Outline 1.0 objects wont work with version 1.2.
  Just delete and replace them.

- As the chamfer-option affects the input spline globally,
  it may lead to overlapping points on the result.
  This is no bug but nice to know.
  Overlapping points make your resulting mesh look like 
  shaded with a missing phong-tag.




CHANGELOG:

- added chamfer method
- added "connect source and output spline"-option




WARNING!

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With some combinations of spline types, NURBS objects
and spline deformers, Smart Outline may act weird.
  
Smart Outline MAY even crash C4D - so you use the plugin 
at your own risk and we are not responsible for any loss 
of work or data.
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FEEDBACK:

Please feel free to mail suggestions, requests and bugs.


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(28.05.09)