Chill is a node-based editor for IceSL, the Modeler and Slicer.
Created by members of the team behind IceSL, ChiLL aims to provide a Visual Programming interface for IceSL.
Because IceSL offers the possibility to directly create models using Lua scripting, ChiLL provide a way to create those modeling scripts using an approach based on Visual Programming. No need to code or learn the scripting language!
Note ChiLL is easily extendable, all nodes are IceSL scripts themselves.
Note First and foremost, install IceSL. Once this is done, you have everything required to run a pre-build version of Chill!
For both Windows and Linux based systems, ChiLL is available as a .zip containing pre-build executables and nodes to provide a quick start!
For Windows users, .msi installer is available.
For Linux users, a .deb is available for Debian-based distributions.
ChiLL can also be used direcly from the source code, by building and compiling the project manually. To do so, please see the section below.
To build ChiLL, you will need the following components installed on your computer:
- git
- CMake
- C++ 17 standard libraries
- Any IDE supporting C++ (on windows, Visual Studio is recommended)
Once the required components installed, you can fetch the source code by cloning or downloading a .zip of the source files.
git clone https://github.com/shapeforge/Chill.gitInitialize and fetch the submodules dependencies.
git submodule update --init --recursive
git submodule update --recursive --remote # with git 1.8.2 or above
# or
git submodule update --recursive # with git 1.7.3 or aboveThen you can, if you want, fetch the latest changes of each submodule.
git pull --recurse-submodulesYou can now build the project for your IDE of choice using CMAKE, and then compile.
Once ChiLL is opened -- and IceSL alongside it -- a menu containing the different nodes is displayed in the left side-bar of ChiLL.
You can also access the nodes by doing a right-click on the working space.
To create a graph, start by creating a new node on the workspace, using the nodes menu..
You can now create an emit-node and link the nodes.
To do this click and drag a link from the output of the first node to the input of the second node.
At launch time, ChiLL opens IceSL to produce a preview of the geometry generated by the nodes. You can modify the parameters of any node interactively by typing or dragging values. The modifications are immediately reflected in the preview of the object rendered in IceSL.
You can then save the produced graph for later use, or you can export it as a .lua file tailored for IceSL.
Create your own fork of the project, and submit a pull request.
Note When contributing using a pull request, don't hesitate to be precise in the description of your contribution, and don't forget to document what you did. It will greatly help us to integrate your changes!
If you encounter a bug, or have an idea for a new feature, please fill an issue so we can discuss about it.
Note Please be as precise as possible when filling an issue. For bug reports, please join some scripts/files that reproduce the problem. Using a label on your Issue will greatly help us tracking and processing them.
You can follow the Google C++ Style Guide for new code.
- Jimmy Etienne [@JuDePom]
- Pierre Bedell [@Phazon54]
- Thibault Tricard [@ThibaultTricard]
- Cedric Zanni [@czanni]
- Pierre-Alexandre Hugron [@pa_hugron]
Special thanks to the IceSL devs and in particular Salim Perchy [@ysperchy] for his help!
ChiLL initial development was supervised by Sylvain Lefebvre [@sylefeb]. It is inspired by an earlier prototype by Jean Hergel [@jhergel].
Feel free to join us in improving ChiLL!
ChiLL initial development was mainly supported by the ERC ShapeForge (StG-2012-307877) and Inria.
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