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scorpion007

06-17-2006, 03:29 AM

Hi, I would like to mimic the behaviour of the Shape Instance node in PFlow when you check the "Object elements" box.
Basically, i want to read an Editable poly, get each Element, and store it in an array, then later get its transformation etc.

How can i do this?

hblan

06-19-2006, 12:58 AM

elements of mesh or poly is only a group of faces ,use this command to get them :

polyop.getElementsUsingFace()
meshop.getElementsUsingFace()

it will return a bitarray of faces , eg: #{1..5} ,then make a loop , do what u want with each face .

maybe helpful

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