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I believe the setting for the gizmo visibility is in the options panel.

I'm not currently at my computer but I will zip the icons and for them when I get there. Please re-read the previous posts as some of the icons go in different places.

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Thanks for the quick response....sorry but i am new to Moi.....I have Alot of catching up to do regarding the customozation of this awesome software.

My apologies.

A.

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New Updates

First off, I've got a whole package for those of you who don't want to mess with MGB but would like to use the MODO-like interface. Here's the interface (right-click to view full scale):



A few things to note about this interface. Most of you know, earlier on I created icons for the document management part on the lower left. Now, I've recreated Max's icons so they will work with the Icon Builder component of MGB. So, now it's easy to colorize them as well as all the rest of the icons.

Also, I've added new icons for Max's new SDS scripts, including SDS, Split, Bridge and Scale. Plus, there are an associated group of script commands (and edits) which are used to place them at the bottom next to Max's other scripts. More on that later.

So, in order to use this exact same interface, here's what you'll need to do:

1. Download these files

MODO moi.css:
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/MODOmoi-css.zip

MODO icons
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/MODOicons.zip

MODO interface images:
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/MODOinterfaceImgs.zip

Max Scripts (Only if you have his toolbar and subD scripts installed)
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/maxButtons.zip

2. BACKUP all of MoI and it's config files!

Don't make me say 'I told you so!' ;-)

3. Put them in their CORRECT Locations

Here are the files..

moi.css

It goes in the

moi/ui

folder and replaces the existing one there.

icons

There are MORE icons in this new MODO icons folder (built by MGB icon builder) than currently in your

moi/ui/icons

folder. Be sure to copy and the files in the download icons folder and replace them in the existing

moi/ui/icons

folder.

interface images

These will replace the existing images with the same name in the moi/ui folder.

Max scripts

These all go in the

moi/ui/customui

folder. If you don't have this folder then you don't have Max's tools installed. You'll need to go to his thread and install from there first.
NOTE: I edited some Max scripts to remove the embedded icons and add the newly built generated icons. No other functional changes were made.

• 70 ObjLibrary.htm
• 80 ExtScripts.htm
• 84 Snapshot.htm
• 88 LightingPresets.htm

Also, I've ADDED the following html script files, which also go in the

moi/ui/customui

folder. They of course have matching icons which you've already installed.

• 94 Scale.htm
• 91 SDS.htm
• 92 Split.htm
• 93 Bridge.htm

A couple other things to remember:

1. Max's scripts go along the bottom, from left to right based on the NUMBER before the file name. So,
   code:

   94 Scale.htm

   will show up to the right of
   code:

   93 Bridge.htm

   .
2. Placing a
   code:

   -

   in front of a htm file will disable it from being shown in the interface. So, to hide the Snapshot button, just change it’s name to
   code:

   -84 Snapshot.htm

Other stuff

If you want to recreate your own icon color schemes, I've updated the icons for both Dark and Light backgrounds. So, please download the new versions:
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/IconsForDarkBgs.zip
https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/IconsForLightBgs.zip

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Sweet, Thanks for this chipp.

A general question, perhaps you know something about or even better, Michael can respond this one...

All this UI icons are 64px X 64px. With the new set of retina displays coming into the market. If there is a way that Moi can be take advantage of a set of higher resolutions icons?
I am seeing a lot of software updating their interface for this new generation of 3K, 4K monitors.

If I update the icons to a bigger size/resolution I wonder if something have to be change in Moi's files to allows this new set of high resolutions icons to work with the software..????

Michael anything to add here????

Cheers!

Abelo

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Hi Abelo,

> All this UI icons are 64px X 64px.

Well not exactly - that's the source image for the icon, it's not the displayed size in the UI. The displayed size is controlled by the current UI font size. Normally the displayed size is a fair amount less than 64x64 and so the higher resolution source image gets automatically scaled down on a regular display.

On a high resolution retina display the displayed size will be larger and will probably end up using the full image maybe enlarging it slightly.

So the existing system will already be adapting pretty much fine to the retina display just using the current icons, basically the icons were already set up to be fairly larger and scaled downwards from the beginning so there shouldn't be any need to make them "even larger yet" I don't think...

If you want to experiment with it anyway, you can just edit the icon to put a larger size file in there like a 128x128 pixel one - the UI system will automatically scale the source icon to the displayed size whether that's scaling it up or scaling it down. But it's pretty unlikely that you will really see any difference from the 64x64 images.

- Michael

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Fair enough!. Thanks Michael for your detailed and quick answer. Later on I will do some testing on a 4k monitor.

I am glad to heard that you set up Moi to behave this way, so just adding a new set of higher resolutions icons will make Moi "ready" for retina display monitors without messing up the behavior of the layout.

Cheers!

Abelo

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Hi Abelo, I should mention that there is a separate problem for MoI currently on the actual Retina display where there does not seem to be any way to turn off the system where they lie to the application and tell it that its window is half the size and then scale it up to double size on screen.

MoI itself is ready to run full size but the problem is that Apple does not seem to have provided any way to shut off that size doubling for non-Cocoa apps. I am working to improve this in the future so that MoI will hopefully be able to stop using the Wineskin system for running it.

- Michael

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Chipp - Is there an easy way for me to add only the SubD buttons for Max's scripts (as opposed to the hot keys I'm now using)?

At this time I don't want to change the entire UI.

Ed Ferguson

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Hi Ed,

Currently the scripts I provide only work within Max's framework. You can of course install his framework and ONLY use those buttons (by prefixing a '-' before all the other *command.htm* files).

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Hi Ed,
You would edit the Commandbar.htm file in MoI's UI folder to add a button.....

Here is a button next to max's custom UI..




The code to add a button is:

<moi:Spacer/>
<moi:CommandButton icon="icons/plugin.png" command="Subdiv6"</moi:CommandButton>

The icon is an image of your choice. The command is the name of the command....

Image Attachments:
adding_buttons.jpg 

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you write "subdiv6"
in normal way that is "_subdiv_beta6" have you change the name of the command?

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Ed, if you wanted to use my icons, then the correct would be:

<moi:Spacer>
<moi:CommandButton icon="icons/subDicon.png" command="_Subdiv_beta6"</moi:CommandButton>

Thanks to Burrman for the heads up. I changed the icons link.

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Hi Frenchy,
Yes, i just renamed it for myself. Simplified for typing.

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Hey chippwalters,
Well, the icon name "plugin.png" is an icon i have on my system. He would want to create a png icon same as yours and have it named and stored in icons folder, then change that name in the code snipet...

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Yep, you're right. I mistyped the code. It should be:

icon="icons/subDicon.png"

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Thanks Chipp and BurrMan - You both saved me a lot of time.

OK - If anyone simply wants to add four buttons to run Max Smirnov's SubD scripts without making any other UI modifications, I've consolidated and condensed the instructions:



Reference:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6674.173
http://moi.maxsm.net/
http://moi.maxsm.net/media/files/

To Install the SubD Scripts by Max Smirnov:
Unzip and copy the following files to the folder: MoI 3.0/commands
_ImportObj.htm
_ImportObj.js
_Subdiv_beta6.htm
_Subdiv_beta.js
_sBridge.htm
_sBridge.js
_sSplit.htm
_sSplit.js
_sScale.htm
_sScale.js

To add Hot Keys (optional):
In MoI go to Options > Shortcut keys and push the "Add" button in there. In the left hand column that says "Key" put in whatever keyboard character you want to use for launching it. Then in the right-hand "Command" column put in the same thing you are currently typing in at the command line.

To add four SubD Icon Buttons (optional):
Make a backup of your MoI folders in case you need to revert back.
Using a text editor, open CommandBar.htm in the MoI 3.0/ui folder.
Find the blue text below. Insert the new white text. Extra spaces are optional and were included for readability (use at least one space character where space is shown).



Download the Icon images from Chipp Walters here: https://altuit.cloud/web/dbpub/MoIGUIdownloads/MODOicons.zip
Select the four icons for the SubD scripts and copy to your MoI 3.0/ui/icons folder

Done!

Ed Ferguson

Image Attachments:
SubD_buttons.png  SubD_button_code.png 

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Hi,

I'm posting this just for reference. I've been using it for about a year and created it to blend with MODO - the app I use alongside MoI. I find it a little easier on the eye.

Mark

Image Attachments:
MoIDarkUI.png 

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This looks cool, I will check it out. Would it allow me to reorganize the toolbar? I would like to show all tools without clicking on their drawer tab. Even more, could commonly used functions within each tool be shown, for example show all the align command types?

Thanks

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It looks like the image above my post shows this as possible.

downloading...

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Hi ed
I don't know anything about programming but I followed your instructions and now have:

The scrips in the Command folder
A nice row of buttons in Moi

The buttons don't seem to do anything when I follow the instructions in the car modeling tutorial. Have I missed a vital step? Am I worng to think that it would be as easy as copy and pasting the scripts and copying code?

Typing in code took me back to my youth, a time when when my brother used to make me type in pages of basic into his Dragon32. With similar, unspectacular, results.

Best regards
Keith

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