Real Time or Live "Edge to Spline" Object?

bentraje

Hi,

Is there a way to create a real-time or live "edge to spline" object?

Scenario:

You have Object A
Execute "Edge to Spline" command. It produces a Spline object
Modify Object A (through skinning, typical deformers, PSR) etc
The spline object stays the same as #1. I don't want that. I want it to stay with the latest modification of Object A #3.

You can see an equivalent of what I am after here in Maya:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjkszesp2sm27xf/c4d247_live_edge_to_spline_command.mp4?dl=0

Regards,
Ben

PluginStudent

Spline generator objects are ObjectData plugins implementing GetContour().

I guess it could be possible to make that function read the properties of a child object. But there is no spline generator in Cinema that does that, so I don't know if that will work.

Another idea would be a Python Tag that continuously accesses your mesh, performs MCOMMAND_EDGE_TO_SPLINE and writes the result into an existing Spline object.

m_adam

its free and open source

bentraje

@PluginStudent and @m_adam

The plugin from @noseman works.
It works for now in my use case, but correct me if I'm wrong it cannot have a priority parameter because it is a generator (?).

Regards,
Ben