3D Utilities

Updates Documentation

PDF documentation for the Unofficial Updates version of trueSpace. Authored with Scribus. Includes a new video file from the beta testing days that demos the copy skin weights button. The manual also includes some corrections and missing information for the original manual.

Installation:

1. Install the PDF Manual for trueSpace.
2. Install the PDF Manual Videos - tS76Video.exe
3. Install the Unofficial Update for trueSpace
4. Unzip the manual files, tS_UU_Manual.zip
5. Run the powershell file "UpdateManual.ps1", Rclick and choose Run with Powershell
6. choose the trueSpace installation folder, or tS folder or PDFMan folder

If powershell does not work, copy the files as indicated in the included text file.

March 18, 2025

• update manual for unofficial updates v10
• updated html file opens pages in new tabs
• new powershell script installer

Persistent installs

Basis for script installations that can be recovered from a context reset or a layout change.

Popups Toolbar

Popup toolbars for trueSpace 7.61.

ISSUE: matrix restiction caused me some problems editing a mesh, dont remember the details. Also maybe light and camera restrictions?

Unofficial Updates for Clinton

Changes to the unofficial updates to match my preferences and buttons for most of the widget shortcuts.

NOTE: (Dec 2025) UU Background Image Camera, Open Camera Window is not compatible with the UU4Clinton bottom toolbar. It closes it and I guess only protects the UU bottom toolbar.

TODO: switch between yaf and vray do not want to remove nodes

TODO: shaders to original ui

TODO: camera,perspective toolbar buttons out of order compared to virgin tS

TODO: radial modeler clears history

TODO: color picker little button make full text

TODO ?: remove bg widget "i", keeps coming up when editing scripts

TODO: light material diffuse strength to 2.0

Prerequisite installer

Pre-install several required scripts that are needed by other scripts. Not for the Unofficial Updates

Batch installs

Install many scripts in one go. Replaces old Mass installer script

OD_CopyPaste

This script will copy and paste mesh data from an external file. Supports UV and morph options. Does not support Weightmaps, SubD and Lightwave style UV's
"Easily copying and pasting of geometry and common attributes across 3D Applications, perfect for quick iterations between them, without concerns about file management."

Library Place

Library place script for organizing projects and for incremental object and scene backups. A library place is a collection of trueSpace libraries.

Web browser based
Color Picker, Layers UI and Scene View for trueSpace7.61

Web based color picker. Colors update in real time and it has 8 slots for color swatches. Web based scene view provides a tree based view into the scene. The layers system is an updated version of workspace layers 3 tools.

display mesh information in the viewport

This script will display mesh information in the 3D view. It will show vertex, triangle and triangle neighbor indices and vertex indices. Information might be useful for scripters/developers. The triangle neighbors data display requires the plugin below.

Push delete markers to clear the display.

The script requires the plugin, Clintons3dPlugin, version v.1638403.

January 2021

• use wldmatrix to position
• limit to 128 to prevent crashing

February 2015 - add matrial index display

April 6 2014 - add uv coord display for uv set 1

CTRL button simulator

Updated version comes pre-installed in the Unofficial trueSpace Updates as a Link Editor toolbar button.

CTRL add/subtract to selection does not work in the link editor.

This script simulates ctrl style picking for LE nodes.

persistent base install required

Usage:

1. press the button
2. select objects to add/subtract to the selection - rectangle select is much more reliable than click select
3. press the button again to exit the ctrl simulator
4. if erratic behavior right click the button to open a link editor window exposing the selection change event

September 22, 2019

• slightly more reliable selection overall
• status message by trueBlue
• right click open le to stabilize - not effective, rectangle select is the solution

GUID Generator

Generates a guid that can be used as an id for buttons.

Bridge Synchronize(OLD)

Place this object in a scene so that truespace 7.61 model side can render a workspace animation.

When truespace 7.61 was released a bug was introduced that prevented workspace animations from rendering in the modelside renders. The object animations did not transfer through the bridge. The bug also shows when scrubbing the workspace timeline and no motion will show in modelside.

Shortcut Runner

A runnable list of all defined shortcuts including widget shortcuts in the Unofficial Updates.

Toolbar Manager v2

Use to select toolbar nodes, save them to an internal store or a file library. Load from the store or library. Temporarily hide the toolbars to get them out of the way when switching to modelside. Easily save toolbars and transfer them to another layout.

Physics Constraint Helper for trueSpace7.61

Script to allow precision placement of physics center of gravity(COG) and constraint fixation points.

Scene View 2 and Node List View Window(Graph Node View)

Scene View 2 description here.

Plugin and script that provides a window similar to the Scene view, but with more options and automatic alphabetization. It displays a list of all the items in the scene. If the Object Information script is installed it will update automatically from the rsx plugin.

(OBSOLETE)Node List View Window(Graph Node View)

Plugin and script that provides a window similar to the Scene view, but with more options and automatic alphabetization. It displays a list of all the items in the scene. If the Object Information script is installed it will update automatically from the rsx plugin.

Object Statistics

Script for gathering statistics. Left click for mesh statistics. The objectStats gives vertex, edge, face and triangle counts. Object stats will continuously update via the web ui or the node list view

Mesh geometry to Widget code for trueSpace6(modelside)

Python script used to convert a mesh to widget code format for use in the trueSpace 6 sdk code. Right click to download the script.

June 13, 2015

• write to text file - fixes problem with too much information for the python display console
• fix for a missing line of generated code

Scene View Reorder Script for tS7.61

Script for alphabetizing the scene or a selected node in the Scene View. The script works by deleting and undoing the delete for each node in order.

Blender Link

Scripts to use Blender tools remotely from truespace to generate some meshes, curves and uv maps.

File Menu

Updated File Menu that includes a save as scene with renaming, save as objects and recordings. It is designed to update the original and the Unofficial Updates File Menu.

Protect Workspace

The Protect Workspace script saves and restores workspace attributes to protect them against modelspace changes. It protects materials, names, matrix transforms, camera fov and spot angle.

Transforms

Transform based utilities.

View

View based utilities.

Add or Change

Add or change object utilities.

custom button and toolbar for trueSpace7.61

This script will create a button and toolbar. The button can refer to a script node or directly to script embedded in the button itself.

toolbar button icon generator for trueSpace7.61

This script and scene file will create a 32bit tga image file, size 26x26 with an alpha channel for use with a toolbar button. It uses the D3D renderer to generate oversized color and alpha images. These images are combined and shrunk down to size to provide a 32bit antialiased tga file.

usage notes:

• requires the custom post process RsD3DBloomFilter to generate the alpha channel
• requires clintons3dplugin rsx file
• optdetector is required to display the result inside trueSpace for review
• a mesh with an alpha material is required for the background alpha channel

1. set the filename with bmp format, the final icon will be a tga file
2. select the 3d camera view window
3. press run to generate the images

UU version deletes the intermediate files so not getting a button image for documentation purposes.

UU version found in the post process library

July 22, 2023

• updated with bmp color file option because jpg had artifacts
• if uu9 installed dont test for the opt detectors - it is system loaded in uu

November 8, 2020

• updated IconMaker script - more reliable, inputs for icon size

Fix Unofficial Update Restore

The Unofficial Updates has a flaw where it can easily uninstall toolbars and widgets that are not included with it.

Option #1: This replacement will change it so it only restores the intended objects. It also provides the option to not restore the objects. The script runs automatically on startup. If any of the objects are missing the panel will show with the missing objects in red.

Option #2: delete it, run Unlock UU9.RsObj to permanently delete the restore script.

Usage for Option #1:

When the panel shows, press the "Restore Red Selected Items" button to restore the items.

Uncheck the corresponding box and press the button to ignore the missing item.

To force the restore of an ignored item

• RMB the C3DC button to open the panel manually
• change the color of the item to pure red (255)
• push the button