New Kangaroo - mesh collisions and separate XYZ constraints

Hi all,

I'm putting this up for anyone who wants to test it out before I make it the main release on the Food4Rhino site. Let me know if it works and if not what errors you get.

This contains a fix for the Mesh Collision component, and also a new sort of Anchor where you can toggle separate booleans for constraint in x, y or z of a point.

(Also note that like the AnchorSpring component this connects to the ForceObjects input of the main Kangaroo component rather than the AnchorPoints input)

Also - Kangaroo has now been split into a Grasshopper component and a separate Physics Engine dll.

You should be able to put both in the usual Grasshopper components directory (after removing any earlier versions of Kangaroo).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26034251/GH_Kangaroo0080.gha

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26034251/KangarooLib0080.dll

The intention is to make this dll something that you can use from your own C# / VB / Python components, or even without going through Grasshopper. More on that to follow...

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Comment by Charles C Vincent on January 3, 2012 at 1:07pm: Hi Daniel,

now it works just fine.

Thanks for such an amazing tool!

Rhino 5.0 64 bit + Grasshopper 0.8.0063

Comment by pb on January 3, 2012 at 12:45pm: hi,

Hi Daniel,

Thank you again.

You are absolutely right.

I unblocked the .dll -file and now it works fine.

best pb

Comment by Daniel Piker on January 3, 2012 at 12:27pm: Hi all,

I think it may just be a question of making sure both the .gha and .dll are unblocked

(right click the files and go to properties)

please try this and let me know if it solves the problem.

Comment by Kristjan on January 3, 2012 at 5:34am: Hi,

Thanks for developing Kangaroo, Daniel! I just let you know that it works fine form me. I use Rhino 4.0 SR8 + grasshopper 08.0063.

Comment by Charles C Vincent on January 2, 2012 at 5:03pm: Hi, Daniel,

upon loading Grasshopper 0.8.0063 in Rhino 5.0 64 bit:

Object: KangarooA (level 1)
{
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
TargetInvocationException
}

Object: KangarooA (level 2)
{
Could not load file or assembly 'KangarooLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
FileNotFoundException
}

Upon opening BallCluster sample file:

Message log start (chronological):

Plugin version: 0.8.0063

Archive file written with older version: 0.8.0004

Input parameter chunk is missing. Archive is corrupt.

The archive contains an unrecognized object: KangarooPhysics {0db23e16-f91a-4105-3067-8d7ab0c60e4f}

This object cannot be deserialized

Object list read

Solver component also missing for me!

Best regards!!

Comment by Daniel Piker on January 2, 2012 at 7:05am: Thanks for the feedback pb.

Has anyone else tested this ?

I'd like to know if it is working in Rhino 5 32 bit or Rhino 4

Comment by pb on January 2, 2012 at 2:52am: hi daniel,

first of all: thank you for your great work.

i tried to install your new components, but i got a error mesage:

>Object: KangarooA (level 1)
>{TargetInvocationException}
>Object: KangarooA (level 2)
>{Die Datei oder Assembly "KangarooLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" >oder eine Abhängigkeit davon wurde nicht gefunden. Das System kann die angegebene Datei >nicht finden. FileNotFoundException}

i use

rhino Version 5.0 (5.1.2011.1214, 14.12.2011) -64 bit

grasshopper 08.0063

and i put the files in the grasshopper/components -directory

if i ignore the error message, grasshopper opens with kangaraoo, but without the sover component :-(

best pb