Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread Alan Fregtman
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,

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread piotrek marczak
This image reminds me that ice needs dot node From: Rob Chapman 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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-07 Thread Rob Chapman
@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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Adam Seeley
Hi, I cobbled together a solution for this a while ago. Depends on the shape the nulls form, this was for more of a terrain scenario. 1. Duplicate a small piece of geometry at each of the nulls positions (e.g. tetrahedron). using script/ice/etc. 2. Scaled them all to zero so all the vertices

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Thanks Adam, Will give that a go, sounds like it will do the job I'm after! Cheers Lawrence On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Adam Seeley adam_see...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I cobbled together a solution for this a while ago. Depends on the shape the nulls form, this was for more of a terrain

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Ciaran Moloney
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 Hullhttp://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

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
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 ;)

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Rob Chapman
for sure! but it was Mr Pankhurst who asked first :) On 5 September 2012 12:57, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hey Rob, do you need a compound for building the description? I might have a plugin for you... Chris

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Chia
Oops, after reading on what he wants, it's pretty unpredictable as to how the polygon description should be... Mine only reads from a input mesh info and output a new mesh ;) (for topo caching mostly) Chris On 5 Sep, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Rob Chapman

Re: nulls2mesh

2012-09-05 Thread Lawrence Pankhurst
Hi Guys, Thanks for all the replies, I went with Adam's solution in the end, quick and dirty but did the job, I'll have a look at the convex hull stuff when I get a bit more time!! Cheers Lawrence On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Oops, after reading