detecting spline object segment start/end points
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On 15/10/2015 at 02:42, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
I got a spline object, which contains many different segments.
the spline object is used as a Mograph object "inside the cloner". , so clones are cloned exactly on spline points "only points"
I want to create an effector which can scale clones depending on the point , for example if this point is the end of a segment, scale it., I couldn't find what I want from SplineHelp class nor SplineObject "I can't choose points?? just %t which is kinda weird.."
any ideas?
summary of what I want:
1- iterate over all spline points, detect this point "index inside segment"
2- a method to delete clones? "may be with a generator Python object if the effector won't work in this case (and I expect it to not work as it is somehow called once per clone) , or a tag? "tag will be better than a generator" -
On 15/10/2015 at 12:04, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Mohamed
Can you post or show picture with structure of spline op or list as segments?
I do not clearly understand what kind object it is?!for me, like
+null
> pyeffector (effect at connector as points mod)
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> + connect op (connect splnes)
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> > +cloner
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> > > spline
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On 15/10/2015 at 13:07, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Ilya,
+spline
+null
pyeffector
+cloner (clone on object "spline")
cubethe spline can contain many segments "like hair for example, but it is a spline object, segments don't have the same vertex count" , for example:
a spline which contains 4 segments,
segment 0: 10 points
segment 1: 4 points
segment 2: 13 points
segment 3: 6 pointsso it is totally random, what I need to know is:
from the above example: the spline contains 33 points (10 + 4 + 13 + 6) , if I iterate over all points, how to know if this point is the end of a segment? -
On 16/10/2015 at 00:06, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello
"speed" dirty test for 4 seg. with:import c4d import math def main() : op = doc.GetActiveObject() if not op: return sc = op.GetSegmentCount() pnt = op.GetPointCount() pntl = [] for i in xrange(sc) : for p in xrange(0, pnt, pow(sc, 3)) : pos = op.GetSplinePoint(p, i) null = c4d.BaseObject(c4d.Onull) null.SetAbsPos(pos) null[c4d.NULLOBJECT_DISPLAY]=13 pntl.append(pos) doc.InsertObject(null) c4d.EventAdd(c4d.EVENT_0) print pntl if __name__=='__main__': main()
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On 16/10/2015 at 03:48, xxxxxxxx wrote:
thanks Ilya, this helped!
now the last question:
how to delete a clone? "inside mograph" -
On 16/10/2015 at 03:58, xxxxxxxx wrote:
i can not say about "delete"
But take to look at python sdk - \examples\scenes\ push_apart_effector.c4d
Per-Edwards showed in this sample how to control visibility of clone
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On 16/10/2015 at 04:02, xxxxxxxx wrote:
thanks Ilya
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On 16/10/2015 at 09:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi guys,
there's a small bug in Ilya's code, which will produce extra Null objects, if the point count on the spline segments is high enough. And actually there's no need for the pow(sc, 3) construct (which actually gave me some headache, what the script is actually doing...).
The point is, GetSplinePoint()'s first parameter is a float ranging from 0.0 to 1.0. 0.0 addressing the beginning of the segment, 1.0 then end. Ilya's script misused the power function (step parameter of the xrange) to loop exactly twice (and with higher point counts this failed and the loop was executed more times).
Simply change the inner loop to:for p in xrange(0, 2) :
p will only be zero or one, the loop is executed only twice and everything's fine.
Or to answer Mohamed's question directly:
op.GetSplinePoint(0.0, segmentIndex) # Beginning of segement op.GetSplinePoint(1.0, segmentIndex) # End of segement
Regarding the MoGraph question:
I don't think, it's possible to remove a clone. So visibility will most likely be your friend. -
On 16/10/2015 at 09:46, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello Andreas
Thank you that bring the light!woohoo! me was silly, sorry, I get some code from head, different projects from gis(messing with it).
GetSplinePoint used as some-how GetPoint -
On 17/10/2015 at 04:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Andreas,
I knew this "about the xrange and the power" , just took the idea to get the last point as needed.
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On 18/10/2017 at 12:36, xxxxxxxx wrote:
I figured out a pretty clean way to do this without using floats
def FindSegmentPoints(spline) : scnt = spline.GetSegmentCount() #get segment count sarr = [] #array to contain segment start/end dict data cnt = 0 #var to help us keep track of count position for i in xrange(0, scnt) : #iterate through segments c = spline.GetSegment(i)['cnt'] #find current segment count sarr.append({'start':cnt, 'end':cnt+c-1}) #add data to array as dict cnt = cnt + c #update count return sarr #return array
It returns an array where each of the indices is a dict of the start/end points
For a rough example, to access the end point of the 3rd segment of 'spline' (a SplineObject) you would do:
FindSegmentPoints(spline)[2]['end']I hope this helps
Jenny
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On 18/10/2017 at 13:40, xxxxxxxx wrote:
Here's an additional extension of the previous function.
This one can find which segment a point index belongs to, given a SplineObject and the point index
#Find segment a point index belongs to def FindSegmentByPoint(spline, index) : #spline, point index (int) scnt = spline.GetSegmentCount() #get segment count cnt = 0 #var to help us keep track of count position if index > spline.GetPointCount() : #if index is out of range, print 'index out of range' # return -1 return -1 for i in xrange(0, scnt) : #iterate through segments c = spline.GetSegment(i)['cnt'] #find current segment count if cnt < index < (cnt+c-1) : break cnt = cnt + c #update count return i #return segment index