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Create Operator

Fig. 1 Create Operator

This operator allows you to generate new parts for you model. There are two important settings to know:

Separate (Geometries): each part will be a different Geometry. When disabled, all generated parts will be added to the same geometry. For this reasons, this operators also shows the Geometries Inspector which will be presented in the Geometries Operator section
Unwraps: where possible, parts generated will have a default pre-unwrapped set of uv-coordinates. Avoid this if you plan to edit geometries with the Edit Operator (pre unwrapped models don't work well there). In any case, you will be able to add unwraps at a second time with the Unwraps Operator.

The first two buttons are action buttons, which will execute their action at once:

Insert a Curved Poly
Insert a Mesh

The other buttons are operations which allows you to build custom primitives, similar to the premade ones you can find in CurvedPoly/Assets/Primitives, but with a various set of custom options making the number of available primitives much more great. Such Operations are:

Build Circles
Build a Cylinder
Build a UV Sphere
Build a Quads Sphere
Build a Donut (Torus)
Build a Quad (or a Grid of Quads)
Build a Plate
Build a Bar
Build a Chamfer Box
Build a Cube
Build an NGon

Each primitive builder has its own parameters. Common actions for all the builders are:

Apply: Confirm any change and exit the builder (You can always undo this if you change your mind). Pressing Enter will do the same.
Close: Remove any built content from the model and exit the builder (You can always undo this if you change your mind). Pressing Esc will do the same.
Update: changes made to the primitive parameters are not instant. You need to press this to rebuild the primitive with different parameters.
Reset: reset the primitive to its default parameters values and update it.

If you change operator while one of the building operations is active, the operation will be automatically applied.

Last but not least. Primitives are generated at the position of the Pivot, which is drawn in the scene view as a target with 2 circle and one central sphere. clicking the target will allow you to move the pivot, or you can write the pivot position from the menu control. After the pivot has been moved, you need an Update to place the primitive at the new position.

Insert a Curved Poly

Open a selection window where you can pick up a Curved Poly Asset. After an asset has been selected, it will be cloned inside the model you are editing. This doesn't work like the Import button in the Inspector, because the import button will replace any other content, while this button will Add it as part of the new model.

Insert a Mesh

Fig. 2 An inserted Mesh.

Open a selection window where you can pick up any Mesh asset. The Mesh is than converted into a Curved Poly and added as a new part of your model. Inserted meshes will all be made of Linear Edges, so you may need to switch to the Edit Operator and work on the imported content to make it smooth. You may follow the Tips to Import a LOW POLY Mesh and transform it into a Curved Poly in one of the next chapters.

Use insert a mesh with Low Poly Meshes which you want to use as a stub to start working on a new Curved Poly Model. Don't use insert Mesh with meshes with a large amount of vertices. DON'T DO THAT, because that will have a dramatic impact of the performance of Curved Poly, which is designed to work with a lower number of (main) vertices.

Circles

The Circles Building Operations builds a set of filled concentric circles. There is no options to have an empty circle, but you can always create a filled one and switch to the Edit Operator to cut the interior. Parameters are:

Radius (Main Circle): radius of the most external circle
Size: number of concentric circles
Sides: number of edges each circle will be made of.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the circles edges.
Sub (Tessellation): the hint assigned to edges used to connect circles.

Cylinder

The Cylinder Building Operations builds a Cylinder (or a Capsule, depending on the parameters assignment). Parameters are:

Radius: radius of lateral area of the cylinder.
Height: height of lateral area of the cylinder.
CapH: height of the caps extensions to the top and bottom of the cylinder.
Size: number of strips in the cylinder lateral surface. Each strip is made of a closed set of quads limited by two circles, and the number of circle is always Size+1.
Sides: number of edges each circle will be made of.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the circles edges.
Sub (Tessellation): the hint assigned to edges used to connect circles.
Caps (Tessellation): the hint assigned to edges used in the caps.
Top (Part): when disabled, the top cap is not built.
Bottom (Part): when disabled, the bottom cap is not built.

UV Sphere

The UV Sphere Building Operations builds a Sphere by connecting a set of parallel circles. Parameters are:

Radius: radius of the sphere.
Size: number of strips in the sphere. Each strip is made of a closed set of quads limited by two circles, apart from the first and last strip which are made of triangles, being limited on one side by a single vertex.
Sides: number of edges each circle will be made of.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the circles edges.
Sub (Tessellation): the hint assigned to edges used to connect circles.
Bottom (Part): when disabled, the bottom half of the sphere is not built.
Left (Part): when disabled, if also Bottom is disabled, the left half of the sphere will not be built .
Back (Part): when disabled, if also Bottom and Left are disabled, the back half of the sphere will not be built .

Quads Sphere

The Quads Sphere Building Operations builds a sphere made only of Quads. This one has few parameters:

Radius: radius of the sphere.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the circles edges.

Donut (Torus)

The Donut Building Operations builds a Donut (Torus) by connecting a set of circles. Parameters are:

Radius: radius of the main Circle in the Donut.
Section: radius of the section of the Donut.
Size: number of strips in the donut. Each strip is made of a closed set of quads limited by two circles, the number of circles is also equal to size.
Sides: number of edges each circle will be made of.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the circles edges.
Sub (Tessellation): the hint assigned to edges used to connect circles.
Bottom (Part): when disabled, the bottom half of the donut is not built.
Outside (Part): when disabled, the circles and polygons in the external side of the donut are not built.
Inside (Part): when disabled, the circles and polygons in the internal side of the donut are not built .

Quads

The Quads Building Operations builds a Grid of Quads. Parameters are:

Width: width of the grid.
Height: height of the grid.
X: number of rows in the grid.
Y: number of columns in the grid.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges.

Bar

The Bar Building Operations builds a geometry which has the same structure of a cylinder, but different parameters and different setup,in order to make the primitive look like a bar. Parameters are:

Width: width of the bar.
Height: height of the bar.
Depth: depth of the bar.
XYZ ext (Bevel): length of the smooth caps at the beginning and end of the bar.
UV ext (Bevel): modulate uv coordinates generation on the smooth caps at the beginning and end of the bar.
Size: number of strips in the bar. Each strip is limited by two ellipses.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges.
Bevel (Tessellation): the hint assigned to the edges used in the caps.
Bisided (Parts): when disable, the back half of the bar is not built.

Plate

The Plate Building Operations builds a Plate. A Plate is like a grid of Quads with some thickness (depth) smooth bevels on the sides. Parameters are:

Width: width of the plate.
Height: height of the plate.
Depth: depth of the plate.
XYZ ext (Bevel): length of the bevels.
UV ext (Bevel): modulate uv coordinates generation on the bevels.
XSize: number of rows in the grid.
YSize: number of cols in the grid.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges of the grids.
Sub (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges of bevels.
Bisided (Parts): when disable, the back half of the plate is not built.

Chamfer Box

The Chamfer Box Building Operations builds a Chamfer Box. Parameters are:

Width: width of the box.
Height: height of the box.
Depth: depth of the box.
XYZ ext (Bevel): length of the bevels.
UV ext (Bevel): modulate uv coordinates generation on the bevels.
X (Sides): number of internal separations on X direction.
Y (Sides): number of internal separations on Y direction.
Z (Sides): number of internal separations on Z direction.
Main (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges of the grids.
Bevel (Tessellation): the hint assigned to all the edges of bevels.
Top (Parts): when disable, the top face of the box is not built.
Bottom (Parts): when disable, the bottom face of the box is not built.
Right (Parts): when disable, the right face of the box is not built.

Cube

The Cube Building Operations builds a Cube made of linear edges and sharp vertices. It has no parameters

NGon Plate

The NGon Building Operations builds a Plate which has as base a polygon of a custom number of sides. Parameters are:

N: the number of sides. So for example 5 generates a pentagon, 6 generates and hexagon.
Radius: radius of the circle used to build the vertices of the custom polygon.
Height: height (thickness) of the plate.