Hi Marco,

Great job! Nice icons. I took different approach ( See attached image). I used MOI option Dialog and created the Plugin gallery. The dialog can stay open or you can drag it to second monitor and free-up the moi viewport. This is part of my overall UI modification. I will be happy to share it just need to write instruction for installation.

Thanks,

-sharif

Hi Sharif,

I'm happy to see that in this forum good ideas never die :)

I like your approach and i think it will be very useful, although,
for a more practical use, it needs doubtless a second monitor.

In my opinion, the very best tool to obtain a real cool plugin library,
would be to have this two things linked together :

a panel gallery based on big and nice, and self explanatory icons,
like ones did by you or me (i prefer colorful icons than grey ones),

and, above all, a text command search with auto completion.

So, while someone writes some letter of a command name, the panel filters the icons accordingly.

You might even think to filter the search based on some hidden description apppliyed to each or some of the commands.

So, if i have, let's say, 400 or more commands and scripts, and i need a tool
that help me to create some kind of stuff, the search should show me all the commands and script that are
candidate to do that stuff.

Maybe someone wants to dig into this challenge ?

I hope someone will do.

Nice night.

Marco.

French version of the Marco list done! :)

http://moiscript.weebly.com/liste-scripts-commandes.html

Hi Marco, thanks for sharing your work!

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Not at all!

It was a some sort of break time from my daily job,
'cause i'm an hobbyist and an enthusiast in cad and 3d modelling and in computer graphic in general.

Using Moi is almost always a fun, and i think, that most of the philosophy that lies behind Moi,
should, in general, be shared by others cad/3d software, like, just to name one, Rhino.
Not for nothing that product was also written by you, if i remember correctly... :)

What do you think about my post to Sharif about the convenience to write some sort of plugin gallery that
will supply a sort of filter search based on some hidden descriptions applied to each or some of the commands,
and should filter the shown icons accordingly ?

Are you thinking some similar sort of thing for version V4 ?

Thank you for all and nice day.

Marco.

Hi Pilou,

Thank you very much for your translating job!
I am pleased to see that you have appreciated my little and funny job.

Now...do you want also design some different and funny colored icons ? :) :)

A sort of skinnable Moi's UI....

What do you think 'bout ?

Nice day.

Marco.

Design icons is not an easy work!
It's difficult to keep same style for numerous pieces!

I prefer play with more free organic volumes! ;)
Here Bemfarmer SinWave along a Sinwave path with a hole texture material! :)

Hi Pilou,

Unconventional 3d modeling....as usual.

Nice job!

Yes, I agree with you that the hardest work, regarding the design of a skinnable UI, is to keep same style for numerous icons,
while maintaining those, eye catching and self explanatory.

Marco.

Very nice, Marco.
Very good instructions which I failed to follow precisely but got there in the end.
Love it.
Many thanks,
Mike.

Hi Marco,

re:
> What do you think about my post to Sharif about the convenience to write some
> sort of plugin gallery that will supply a sort of filter search based on some hidden descriptions
> applied to each or some of the commands, and should filter the shown icons accordingly ?
>
> Are you thinking some similar sort of thing for version V4 ?

I can't say for sure which specific version will have it (like whether it will be for V4 or not until some time later than that), but I definitely want to work on a plug-in browsing system similar to what you are describing.

Something like a "Browse plugins" button and if you clicked it a dialog would come up with different categories and yes I guess probably a search function eventually too, where you could go and then click a button to install it and probably assign a shortcut key to it there too.

Something like that anyway...

There will be a significant amount of work involved in creating that entire system though, so it's difficult to know exactly when it will be implemented. Right now plugins in general is not my main priority, I'm still working on much more basic things still.

- Michael

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for your appreciation of my job, and i'm glade to know that all worked for you.

Let me know if the instructions i wrote are incomplete or broken, and if anyone wants to
write more clearly instructions, it's free to do it :)

Nice day,

Marco.

All is done for the French Version! :)
http://moiscript.weebly.com/liste-scripts-commandes.html

magnificent JOB Marco

congratulation !


M.O.I , already great ,with your job and other contributors begin to be incredible !

Thanks to you and thanks for sharing.

Thanks to PILOU for french translation

Hi, Pilou and christian (CHRI).

Thank you christian for your words regarding my job.
I enjoyed myself in designing those icons.

Now, it's my intention to focus more on pure nurbs modeling,
both in Moi and in Rhino.

Anyway, like i said to Pilou, is there someone who wants to supply new/better self-explanatory icons for the plugin gallery ?

who knows .....?

Pilou, thank you very much for your translation work!
You're a very patient man :)

Nice night,

Marco.

I seem to have a French version of Chain Maker....

All the others that I have tried have been in English.

Is it just me?

Mike.

PS By the way, I'm not entirely sure that Chain Maker should be in 'Mechanical'. I ran it expecting to get an Engineering type chain.

Maybe you must turn Options / Language in French ?
And you must make all this "French" installation!
http://moiscript.weebly.com/liste-scripts-commandes.html

I think that I expressed myself poorly.

I want it in English like the rest of the icons that I've clicked.

So In Eglish follow the first post of this thread! ;)

Hi Mike, I think you can find the original chain maker script which was in english here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6087.67

If you overwrite your french version with that original English one that should then set you up with the english command.

- Michael

Thanks, Michael.
That did, of course, do the trick.

Mike.