It's great, I've been really impressed by it's ease of use.

@@ArtisansofVaul indeed!!!

I've been looking at loads of projects thinking the same. 😅 Expecially the way the panel lines will overlap perfectly 🤦

Great stuff, Jimmy. Don’t stop!

😅 Glad you like it. I have a second video with other tricks too, in case you're interested: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8moYKl7ttzMqoU.html

Cheers 😁👍🏻

I'm really enjoying it. I've been playing with it a lot and found out some cool combinations. I'm going to do another tutorial on it.

Great to hear its going to be useful for you. For panel detailing I've been finding it such a time saver but I imagine it does depend on a person's uses for it. I do love that the creator put in a mode suitable for 3D printing.

I think that's a bit to do with how the addon functions, it's one of the reasons I like the 3D version as I can fiddle with the bevels on both a bit. I doubt it would ever be totally perfect however without doing it manually and taking a lot of time over it, so it's a bit of a trade off.

Thanks. I've been impressed so far.

Glad you like it. I'm planning a video looking at some other fun things I've found you can do with it too.

I do the same generally, Hard Ops is great. I just find this helpful when you don't want it to be destructive and if you check out the second video on it you can do some really funky stuff.

@@ArtisansofVaul Oh yes, this seems very convenient, thanks for sharing!

@@ArtisansofVaul I got this and is very nice, playing with some panels on a sci-fi drone now :)

@VG Modelling Awesome. Glad you're enjoying it 😁

It depends how extreme the curve is. Generally I've found it similar to the inset feature on hardops works; generally pretty good but if the mesh is quite complex/tight it has issues.

Good question. I've used it on a subdivided mesh on an aircraft wing and it worked fine (though I had applied the sub D at that point). So far my view of it seems to be if the Inset function from HardOps would work this generally will too, I imagine it uses a lot of the same functions. So as that has issues with very complex mesh I imagine this might be similar.

Nice idea. I say that because I had the same thought yesterday and did some playing. This works perfectly well with Face Extract from Hard Ops allowing you to do just that! I've got a video on that here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obqWZbeCmMCogok.html

No idea I'm afraid. Is your Blender up to date? I haven't had that to be able to help, I'd suggest messaging the creator as he's been great with anything I found before it was released

@@ArtisansofVaul That's a great point, I'm using Blender 3.2... I'll try updating, and I also sent a message to Gabe. Thanks!

@abledog006 Do let me know how it goes, always good to know 👍🏻

@@ArtisansofVaul I made contact with Gabe, and this is new to him. I ended up resetting Blender to default, then activated Just Panels and tested it out. It's working now, and I'll be re-activating my other addons to see which one had a conflict with JP.

@abledog006 Glad it's working. Id appreciate it if you could let me know what the conflict ends up being.

Good question. I have played with the add on on some round shapes and how well it works does seem to vary (generally a combination of how deep you want the panel lines and the complexity of the mesh). I will say that I think even if the 3D printing option didnt work youd find the 2D option useful and then you could add a version of the wing in the centre to act as the depth. Its not perfect but could still save a lot of time. I would suggest the best thing to do would be to contact Gabe. He's a really nice guy and its been fantastic chatting to him to talk through what I think would be useful for the tool to me and I don't doubt he would be interested in hearing from someone who has a use that I think other people would be interested in. Just out of curiosity I just did a really quick test on some wing shapes.... Not sure if this is close to what you're after but thought it might help: drive.google.com/file/d/1swKKzQOBHGoHOXdTnBN7QeDGGd9PRXKj/view?usp=sharing

@@ArtisansofVaul that is perfect!! This is now an absolute buy! Thank you.

@Hurtone I just got an affiliate link from the great guys at HardOps so if you fancy supporting the channel it's just about to be put in the video description (at no extra cost to you of course)

So I've had some mixed success on curved surfaces. It's similar to Boxcutters inset function where if the mesh is very complex it will have issues. But that also seems to be a function of how deep the panel line is.

@@ArtisansofVaul Thank for testing this out. My current workflow is to select all edges along the desired panel line, bevel it to get some faces and finally giving it depth with "Edge extrude along faces". This is actually quite tedious and will only work good if the model is still low-poly. So this plugin will be an improvement for sure

@@stefanp6480 Let me know how it goes as it's great to know.

I just found some time to play around with this great new gimick. I found it works almost perfectly on curved objects, but like with any other tool in blender you have to find a good balance on how much geometry (vertices) is really needed, that all objects are manifold etc. (As with any tool in Blender, so it´s not JustPanels to blame here). When using "Make Panel (3d printable)" it seems the unit for "Gap In" / "Gap Out" / "Panel depth" is not millimeters but something else (I made sure everything is on scale 1/1/1 at the beginning). If you know how to get this to millimeters or what unit it actually represents, please let me know. I also encountered a bug if you make more than one panel on one object, the parameters within "JP_3DPPANEL.000" seem also to hold parameters for JP_3DPPANEL.001 etc. (You will get multiple instances of i.e. "Gap In" / "Gap Out" / "Panel depth" etc. You can see it in your video at 9:30 for "Panel depth", too). But overall, yes, I love it !

@@stefanp6480 👍All very good points. I think you will enjoy the video next week (or tonight on the Patreon) which looks at some more fun you can do with this. Id suggest messaging the designer on Blender Marketplace. He's a really nice guy and Im sure it would be good for him to know. I wonder if the scale issue is something to do with it being in Blender Units, not mm (Id have to experiment with that to have a look).

I don't I'm afraid. Is it and Blender the latest version? Is would be worth contacting the creator I would say.

@@ArtisansofVaul oh I thought you're the creator, his discord seems to be silent for a long time already. Yes my Blender is the latest verison, 4.0, somehow restarting Blender a couple times and I was able to find it in the add-on list

@tanpa11 I just messaged on Blender Market. Admittedly it was a while back but he was very quick to reply.

In London if you're lucky.

I find "pints" is a good way of measuring the cost of something. Similarly pubs are a good way of starting a description of where a location is.... Maybe I should talk to someone about that 😅

@@ArtisansofVaul Where I live in the East Midlands it would "Three pints"! 🤣🤣

@antarhowarth115 I need to head north it seems. But not too far. I met some guys from Norway once and for them it would be "one pint". They went crazy when they saw the cost of a crate of beer in an off-licence.

@@ArtisansofVaul Apparently Iceland is even worse!

I mean each to their own. For me it seems worth it but then I use things like this a lot and I know how much time it's going to save me.