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Nice work on update Daniel, good job as always...

Nice one man, getting better all the time, this is gonna make smashing out hard surface stuff much easier :D

When I started creating this plugin there were a few features I had in mind, but simply could not find a way to provide these. And while this plugin is no rocket science (far from it), things require quite some tricky solutions now and then. Luckily, I seem to be getting smarter day by day ... yeah, I wish! Still, features I didn't quite know how to implement then, seem to be feasible now. A result of this is that I now have introduced an "auto setup" for assets, which -in theory- should work for most of the assets people are creating. In occasions where the auto setup fails to detect the necessary base and orientation, extra tools are provided to make the manual set up more user friendly. Here's a demonstration video of the latest alpha version I am working on, before going to beta: Another "feature" of this version is a change in library format. Each library used to be a single Cinema 4D scene file, making sharing and distributing single assets a nightmare. I have reworked the whole plugin to work with separate asset files instead. A conversion utility is part of this newer version to convert from the old format to the new one. There is however a major drawback on this new way of storing assets. Cinema 4D takes about 70 to 100 milliseconds to load a scene file. No big deal, you would think. But what if a library consists of 50 assets? That would then take approx. 5 seconds to load and display. Trust me, 5 seconds is a very long time to wait after you selected a library. As such, I also had to introduce a caching mechanism to reduce the loading time of libraries again and again. You'll only have to wait the first time a library is selected. Next times, it should like in a blink of an eye. Next to these changes, the usual bug fixes and optimizations ... no big deal ;) Public release of this new version will be announced when beta-testing has been completed. Thanks for reading.