true - is 'pass through' not the similar as a dot node? On 7 September 2012 17:12, piotrek marczak <piotrek.marc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> This image reminds me that ice needs dot node > > *From:* Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, September 07, 2012 5:56 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: nulls2mesh > > Hi Alan > > Apologies for that- I thought if I could see it ok.... > > anyways here it is reattached. impressive spaghetti but no information can > be ascertained as its too small detail > > but its from this original thread > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/xsi_list/convex$20hull/xsi_list/HcwOCOr2b_c/azmTxe3zlK8J > > hope that works > > Best > > Rob > > > > > > On 7 September 2012 16:47, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregt...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Rob, >> >> You're linking to a private url for your Gmail pointing to an attachment. >> Can't do that. It's unusable for everyone else. >> >> Can you get the image and attach it to your email or put it on >> http://imgur.com or some other image upload site for us to see? >> >> Cheeers, >> >> -- Alan >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> ah yeah - there you go, well remembered Ciaran 'convex hull' was the >>> search term, from the same thread Grahame fuller did that in ICE only - >>> won't take you long to rebuild from the image description Lawrence ;) >>> >>> >>> https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=3bf826a559&view=att&th=12f698c5d63caa9d&attid=0.1.0&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-vyaBOEqzPxsaMIRCb2anD&sadet=1346842977331&sads=6GL42IzMUakN2KC52Ld4_NbnUKM&sadssc=1 >>> >>> >>> as you can see the gift wrapping algorithm is not so easy ! >>> >>> >>> >>> On 5 September 2012 11:55, Ciaran Moloney <moloney.cia...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Sounds like you want a convex hull of the null's points. Pretty sure >>>> there was a compound once, if not you might try Mr. LaForge's Convex >>>> Hull <http://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/happy-2012/> ICE node. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> yeah I dont think there was ever a nulls2mesh - nulls2points easy and >>>>> vertex2nulls yes :) >>>>> >>>>> for a clean topo the point position array is easy as you have that, >>>>> its just the description of each polygon, or the order of each vertex in >>>>> every polygon - how is this to be made? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> if the desired mesh is pretty simple shape you could try starting with >>>>> a simple surrounding geometry and in ICE moving points to the nearest null >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 5 September 2012 10:56, Lawrence Pankhurst <lp3ds...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Nice clean mesh would be good, it's a one off so I might just do it >>>>>> by hand, just thought it would be a useful tool to have and it would >>>>>> exist >>>>>> already (sure there used to be a script)!! Polygoniser takes the nulls >>>>>> but >>>>>> gives blobs rather then a single mesh! >>>>>> Thanks for looking though! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> >>>>>> Lawrence >>>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Rob Chapman <tekano....@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> oh! ICE topo should be able to do this, :) but not sure how you >>>>>>> are to build the polygon description from a set of random positions!? >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> so easy >>>>>>> >>>>>>> what kind of mesh are you after? if its not just a regular clean >>>>>>> topology then you could simply put all nulls into a group and use the >>>>>>> global.kini.pointpositions to feed into a polygoniser mesh. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hth >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 5 September 2012 09:17, Lawrence Pankhurst <lp3ds...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi guys, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I thought I remembered a nulls2mesh script knocking about, can't >>>>>>>> find it anywhere! >>>>>>>> I've got a set of nulls and want to turn them into a mesh, ie >>>>>>>> position of each null becomes a vertex in said mesh! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So anyone now where the script is or is there an ICE tool? Had a >>>>>>>> look on http://rray.de/xsi/ but couldn't see what I was after! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Any help appreciated. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cheers >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Lawrence >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> - Ciaran >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
