Viewport Select Radius

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On 26/07/2011 at 06:30, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Unless of course the live select tool uses a raycollider but I can't see how to do that without iterating through all the points.

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On 26/07/2011 at 10:20, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Why not just use GetNearestPoint() and then use a Neighbor class to get neighboring points within the radius (do a distance from the hitpoint being used as the center of the radial selection?

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On 26/07/2011 at 10:25, xxxxxxxx wrote:

hmmm.. you might be on to something there Robert.

How would I get Neighboring points though? Get the neighboring polys and then get the points of those polys using

void GetPointPolys(LONG pnt, LONG** dadr, LONG* dcnt)_<_h4_>_

Thanks,

Shawn

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On 26/07/2011 at 10:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:

After a bit of research and search here, you might want to stay with the ViewportSelect+ViewportPixel. Michael Welter says this:

Try

ViewportPixel* GetPixelInfoPoint(LONG x, LONG y);
ViewportPixel* GetPixelInfoPolygon(LONG x, LONG y);
ViewportPixel* GetPixelInfoEdge(LONG x, LONG y);

You can iterate over all pixels in the selection area and call these. Its quite fast so it shouldn't be the bottleneck, if your are worried about that.

Note that you will need to get the pixels within the radius of the hitpoint (the selection area).

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On 26/07/2011 at 10:49, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Yeah I saw that, and I attempted to iterate through the pixels and it lagged pretty bad, but maybe I iterated through the pixels wrong.

If I remember correctly, I used the current mouse location, and set up a range from negative radius to positive radius in both x and y and iterated through that to check for points at those pixel locations and that was crazy slow..

Do I interpret him meaning incorrectly?

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On 26/07/2011 at 10:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:

so as a code example of how I had iterated through that.. I would so something like this.

  
LONG xmin = mx - radius   //mx is the current mouse x position.  :)  
LONG xmax = mx + radius  
LONG ymin = my - radius   //my is the current mouse y position.  :)  
LONG ymax = my + radius  
  
for(int ix = xmin; ix < xmax; ix++)  
{  
  for(int iy = ymin; iy  < ymax; iy++)  
  {  
      ViewportPixel *vp = vps->GetPixelInfoPoint(ix, iy);  
      bsPoint->Select(vp->i);  
  }  
}

Is that completely wrong HAHA?

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On 26/07/2011 at 11:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Is the radius specified in pixels or in 3D (Real) units?

I'd do it more like this (minor changes) :

LONG xmin = mx - radius;   //mx is the current mouse x position.  :)  
LONG xmax = mx + radius;  
LONG ymin = my - radius;  //my is the current mouse y position.  :)  
LONG ymax = my + radius;  
  
LONG    iy;  
ViewportPixel* vp = NULL;  
for(LONG ix = xmin; ix < xmax; ++ix)  
{  
  for(iy = ymin; iy  < ymax; ++iy)  
  {  
      vp = vps->GetPixelInfoPoint(ix, iy);  
      if (vp) bsPoint->Select(vp->i);  
  }  
}

Of course, this doesn't do a circular radius but a rectangular area.

Dan does something like this:

`     LONG x = mx, y = my;  
     ViewportPixel *vp = vps->GetNearestPolygon(op,x,y,rad);  
     if(vp)  
     {  
          Vector mpt = Vector(mx,my,0.0);  
          Vector pxl = Vector(x,y,0.0);  
            
          if(Len(pxl - mpt) < rad)  
          {  
               if(ctrl) bs->Deselect(vp->i);  
               else bs->Select(vp->i);  
          }  
     }`

Finally, check out the sculpting.cpp example in the plugins/cinema4dsdk folder. It uses a ViewportSelect and calls GetPixelInfoPoint().

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On 26/07/2011 at 11:53, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Robert, I have talked to Dan via email about this and he ran in to the same problems that I am.. He was unable to get it to perform as efficiently as the live select tool also.
However his code for getting a circular radius is a good place to start with the pixel parsing code.

I will play around with parsing the pixels as see if I can optimize that enough to work.

the radius value is a Real value obtained from the AM. This is that same value that ShowHotSPot() uses to draw the radius guide circle. I will take a look again at sculpting.cpp and see if I can get more from it.

Thanks for your time.

~Shawn

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On 27/07/2011 at 18:33, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Just an update! this method was the answer.. it worked very well.. the problem I was having was I was allocating the

GetPixelInfoPoint

within the loop. Thanks Robert!

~Shawn

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On 27/07/2011 at 18:48, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Final Code

  
LONG xmin = mx - radius;   //mx is the current mouse x position.  :)  
                                  LONG xmax = mx + radius;  
                                  LONG ymin = my - radius;  //my is the current mouse y position.  :)  
                                  LONG ymax = my + radius;  
  
                                  LONG    iy;  
                                  ViewportPixel* vp = NULL;  
                                  Vector origin = Vector(mx, my, 0);  
                                  for(LONG ix = xmin; ix < xmax; ++ix)  
                                  {  
                                      for(iy = ymin; iy  < ymax; ++iy)  
                                      {  
                                          Vector current = Vector(ix, iy, 0);  
                                          Vector dist = origin - current;  
                                          Real dis = Len(dist);  
                                          vp = vps->GetPixelInfoPoint(ix, iy);  
  
                                          if (dis < radius)  
                                          {  
                                              if (vp) bsPoint->Select(vp->i);  
                                          }  
                                      }  
                                  }

If anyone sees any optimization possibilities I am all ears, eyes, and fingers.. HAHA..

~Shawn

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On 27/07/2011 at 21:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:

LONG xmin = mx - radius;   //mx is the current mouse x position.  :)  
LONG xmax = mx + radius;  
LONG ymin = my - radius;  //my is the current mouse y position.  :)  
LONG ymax = my + radius;  
  
LONG    iy;  
ViewportPixel* vp = NULL;  
Vector origin = Vector(mx, my, 0);  
Vector current;  
Vector dist;  
Real dis;  
for(LONG ix = xmin; ix < xmax; ++ix)  
{  
  for(iy = ymin; iy  < ymax; ++iy)  
  {  
      current = Vector(ix, iy, 0);  
      dist = origin - current;  
      dis = Len(dist);  
      if (dis < radius)  
      {  
              vp = vps->GetPixelInfoPoint(ix, iy);  
          if (vp) bsPoint->Select(vp->i);  
      }  
  }  
}

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On 27/07/2011 at 21:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks Robert, I should know not to declare variables inside of loops.. LOL

~Shawn

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On 27/07/2011 at 21:59, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Another thing I was wondering,

Is there a way to keep the radius guide circle that is drawn with ShowHotSpot() in line with teh mouse tip? I find that if I move my mouse faster, the radius circle ends up lagging behind a bit. It's as if it can't keep up with the mouse cursor.

Have you run in to this at all?

Thanks,

Shawn