Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Lampi
gt; > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of *Eric Lampi > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:03 PM > *To:* softim

RE: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Matt Lind
m [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Lampi Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Polygon Island orientation Is there any way to change a polygon island's center axis without moving the points on the attached instances? I

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Gustavo Eggert Boehs
:/ though spot to be in... so there is a pointcloud controling all this islands, is that it? Im having a hard time trying to understand what is going on. The orientations you have at first are point to worldspace, not to the sphere. So you might want to get the ofsset between that and the sphere a

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Lampi
Yes, I believe so. I'm freelancing someplace and it was a tool they were already using. I asked and I couldn't get confirmation, basically "I am not sure where we got it". So it's made my job a little harder! It's "create polygon island transform with and ICE pcloud" under the create>poly menu. On

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Eric Lampi
I have one object with many islands, and yes, I want to orient the particle points without moving the geo point positions of the instanced islands. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > Polygon islands don't have real centers. I assume you meant you have > several objects, one p

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Ohhh, you're using Guillaume's Polygon Islands to Particles script? On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Alan Fregtman wrote: > Polygon islands don't have real centers. I assume you meant you have > several objects, one per island and you wish to orient those without > touching the existing point po

Re: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Alan Fregtman
Polygon islands don't have real centers. I assume you meant you have several objects, one per island and you wish to orient those without touching the existing point positions? Am I right? On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Eric Lampi wrote: > Is there any way to change a polygon island's center ax

RE: Polygon Island orientation

2012-09-18 Thread Grahame Fuller
-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Eric Lampi Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 03:03 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Polygon Island orientation Is there any way to change a polygon island's center axis without moving the points on the attached instances? In the original geo, the