Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues
Hey Sebastian, hey Chris, awesome, both solutions work perfectly - cheers for that! :-) Wasn't aware at all of both *Get Element Index* and *Build Array From Set. * Thanks again, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I think you are looking for this. You can use Select in Array ice node to query the individual vertex's position. [cid:c02c4ea5-dd64-448b-91cb-a705c756] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [ martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hello clever people out there, I'm experiencing some annoying issues when trying to deal with Curve Manipulation in ICE - hopefully somebody can help me out here with some insight? 1.) I am looking for the Curve equivalent to self.ID (for PointClouds) or self.VertexIndex (for polyMeshes). Bottom line I want to be able to access a Curve Point Location in the same way I can access PointCloud points via ID to Location or Polymesh vertices via PointIndex To Location 2.) While attempting to workaround this issue I have stumbled over this: (see attached screenshot) When trying to get a full array of all Point Locations of a curve via Get Closest Points I NEVER get the correct point count... When the curve is closed, it will give me one more, when the curve is open I will get two less than the actual point count. Has anybody out there succeeded in working around this somehow? Thanks a lot in advance for any hints, Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de]
Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues
Hi Chris, well, I don't want to be a pain - but I've used Get Closest Points quite often and very successfully with both PointClouds and PolyMeshes. I mis-used it to get an array of all Point Locations in the per-object context (as I didn't know Build Array From Set ... :-/ ) This node works for Polymeshes and Point Clouds, and sort-of-works for Curves - but with wrong results. So my reasoning is that this is a bug that should be logged. I personally don't see a reason why this should work on polymeshes but not on curves. But if that is the case then the node should turn red and not work at all on Curves. But regardless of this specific issue - what is the best way to formally log a bug nowadays? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, From what i know, Get Closest Points works for point cloud data. If you need to find the closest point position to a geometry, you can do something like my screenshot below. I have used null as the geometry. I am sure others can do a simpler ice tree. But I believe this one is more comprehensive. [cid:56b2533f-ae43-45f5-952c-05915526f22d] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: martin.chatter...@googlemail.com [martin.chatter...@googlemail.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:27 PM To: Chris Chia Subject: Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hi Chris, thanks again for the quick reply on the list. For the sake of completeness I'd love to see the faulty behaviour of the Get Closest Points node logged as a bug. It's been a while - in fact I guess this might be my first official bug report since the aquisition... Soo, what is the correct/easiest way of formally logging a bug? Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com mailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I think you are looking for this. You can use Select in Array ice node to query the individual vertex's position. [cid:c02c4ea5-dd64-448b-91cb-a705c756] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [ martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hello clever people out there, I'm experiencing some annoying issues when trying to deal with Curve Manipulation in ICE - hopefully somebody can help me out here with some insight? 1.) I am looking for the Curve equivalent to self.ID (for PointClouds) or self.VertexIndex (for polyMeshes). Bottom line I want to be able to access a Curve Point Location in the same way I can access PointCloud points via ID to Location or Polymesh vertices via PointIndex To Location 2.) While attempting to workaround this issue I have stumbled over this: (see attached screenshot) When trying to get a full array of all Point Locations of a curve via Get Closest Points I NEVER get the correct point count... When the curve is closed, it will give me one more, when the curve is open I will get two less than the actual point count. Has anybody out there succeeded in working around this somehow? Thanks a lot in advance for any hints, Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de]
Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues
Hi Martin, I will bring this up to the development team to see how it should support with the curves. I will handle the filing of defects. If you ever find any defects in the future, you can report it here in this mailing list. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia On 7 May, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Chris, well, I don't want to be a pain - but I've used Get Closest Points quite often and very successfully with both PointClouds and PolyMeshes. I mis-used it to get an array of all Point Locations in the per-object context (as I didn't know Build Array From Set ... :-/ ) This node works for Polymeshes and Point Clouds, and sort-of-works for Curves - but with wrong results. So my reasoning is that this is a bug that should be logged. I personally don't see a reason why this should work on polymeshes but not on curves. But if that is the case then the node should turn red and not work at all on Curves. But regardless of this specific issue - what is the best way to formally log a bug nowadays? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, From what i know, Get Closest Points works for point cloud data. If you need to find the closest point position to a geometry, you can do something like my screenshot below. I have used null as the geometry. I am sure others can do a simpler ice tree. But I believe this one is more comprehensive. [cid:56b2533f-ae43-45f5-952c-05915526f22d] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: martin.chatter...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatter...@googlemail.com [martin.chatter...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatter...@googlemail.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:27 PM To: Chris Chia Subject: Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hi Chris, thanks again for the quick reply on the list. For the sake of completeness I'd love to see the faulty behaviour of the Get Closest Points node logged as a bug. It's been a while - in fact I guess this might be my first official bug report since the aquisition... Soo, what is the correct/easiest way of formally logging a bug? Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I think you are looking for this. You can use Select in Array ice node to query the individual vertex's position. [cid:c02c4ea5-dd64-448b-91cb-a705c756] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto:martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hello clever people out there, I'm experiencing some annoying issues when trying to deal with Curve Manipulation in ICE - hopefully somebody can help me out here with some insight? 1.) I am looking for the Curve equivalent to self.ID (for PointClouds) or self.VertexIndex (for polyMeshes). Bottom line I want to be able to access a Curve Point Location in the same way I can access PointCloud points via ID to Location or Polymesh vertices via PointIndex To Location 2.) While attempting to workaround this issue I have stumbled over this: (see attached screenshot) When trying to get a full array of all Point Locations of a curve via Get Closest Points I NEVER get the correct point count... When the curve is closed, it will give me one more, when the curve is open I will get two less than the actual point count. Has anybody out there succeeded in working around this somehow? Thanks a lot in advance for any hints, Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] attachment: winmail.dat
Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues
Excellent, thanks Chris. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I will bring this up to the development team to see how it should support with the curves. I will handle the filing of defects. If you ever find any defects in the future, you can report it here in this mailing list. Cheers. Regards, Chris Chia On 7 May, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Martin Chatterjee martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Chris, well, I don't want to be a pain - but I've used Get Closest Points quite often and very successfully with both PointClouds and PolyMeshes. I mis-used it to get an array of all Point Locations in the per-object context (as I didn't know Build Array From Set ... :-/ ) This node works for Polymeshes and Point Clouds, and sort-of-works for Curves - but with wrong results. So my reasoning is that this is a bug that should be logged. I personally don't see a reason why this should work on polymeshes but not on curves. But if that is the case then the node should turn red and not work at all on Curves. But regardless of this specific issue - what is the best way to formally log a bug nowadays? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com mailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, From what i know, Get Closest Points works for point cloud data. If you need to find the closest point position to a geometry, you can do something like my screenshot below. I have used null as the geometry. I am sure others can do a simpler ice tree. But I believe this one is more comprehensive. [cid:56b2533f-ae43-45f5-952c-05915526f22d] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: martin.chatter...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatter...@googlemail.com [martin.chatter...@googlemail.com mailto:martin.chatter...@googlemail.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 7:27 PM To: Chris Chia Subject: Re: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hi Chris, thanks again for the quick reply on the list. For the sake of completeness I'd love to see the faulty behaviour of the Get Closest Points node logged as a bug. It's been a while - in fact I guess this might be my first official bug report since the aquisition... Soo, what is the correct/easiest way of formally logging a bug? Cheers, Martin -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [http://www.chatterjee.de] On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com mailto:chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.commailto: chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Hi Martin, I think you are looking for this. You can use Select in Array ice node to query the individual vertex's position. [cid:c02c4ea5-dd64-448b-91cb-a705c756] Regards, Chris Chia Softimage QA Analyst Autodesk Media Entertainment From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Martin Chatterjee [martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.commailto: martin.chatterjee.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:11 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: [ICE] curve manipulation issues Hello clever people out there, I'm experiencing some annoying issues when trying to deal with Curve Manipulation in ICE - hopefully somebody can help me out here with some insight? 1.) I am looking for the Curve equivalent to self.ID (for PointClouds) or self.VertexIndex (for polyMeshes). Bottom line I want to be able to access a Curve Point Location in the same way I can access PointCloud points via ID to Location or Polymesh vertices via PointIndex To Location 2.) While attempting to workaround this issue I have stumbled over this: (see attached screenshot) When trying to get a full array of all Point Locations of a curve via Get Closest Points I NEVER get the correct point count... When the curve is closed, it will give me one more, when the curve is open I will get two
