BabaJ

Should be able to do a bit of trigonometry with azimuth, altitude and camera distance in an expression to set a camera/light position?

Please do put in an RFE for that.

I personally would like to have a directory/folder/file like system one could open.

I find recipes are extremely useful for so many situations and as such like you have a very long list of recipes.

The barrels I used were to be for 3d printing so I had to use a closed shelled model and for printing purposes I needed to have enough thickness too for the entire shell.

So these barrels you see are not single sided, there is thickness to it so I don't see why mpm could not work with any amount of specified thickness;

If I remember correctly it seemed at some stage the geo gets converted to 'volumes'.

The 'trick' at the end was to convert the end result back to polygons; If I remember right it was a combination of timeblend, rest and pointdeform nodes

But I think I saw with latest MPM version that there is some way that it can be done without having to go by what I did with the first release of MPM.