Haamu
07-03-2007, 09:19 AM
Simple question really. This is a (relatively) quickie plugin I made to aid in some extremely tedious task. It is meant to deform mesh with 2 splineshapes instead of just 1, the second determing banking direction.
It works well enough. It's slow and all, but that's not the problem. It gives me errors after I close or open the file with this modifier and sometimes with heavy meshes too. Says something along the lines "unknown error encountered while performing garbage collection of maxscript. If you get this multiple times, consider restarting max"
The help says it might have a lot to do with local variables, but I don't think I can do this without them. Or would declaring those in parameter block help? I'm in bit of a hurry now so can't spend too much time testing aimlessly
plugin simpleMod pdeforms
name:"pathdeform bank"
classID:#(0x2728c9fd, 0x2b2d8d86)
(
local dh=[0,0,0]
local dm=matrix3 0 --matrix data
parameters main rollout:params
(
amount type:#integer ui:amtSpin default:0
tar type:#node
tar2 type:#node
b type:#floattab tabsizevariable:true
)
rollout params "path parameters"
(
spinner amtSpin "Amount: " type:#integer range:[0,1000,0]
button node "path"
button node2 "path2"
on node pressed do(
tar=pickobject()
if tar!=undefined then(
node.text=tar.name
ze=(getknotpoint tar 1 1)-center
)
)
on node2 pressed do(
tar2=pickobject()
if tar2!=undefined then(
node2.text=tar2.name
--ze=(getknotpoint tar 1 1)-center
)
)
)
on map i p do
(
try(
if i==1 then(
b=getseglengths tar 1
dh.x=b[b.count]
dh.z=1/(dh.x)
)
p.x+=amount
case of(
(p.x>dh.x):(dm.row4=getknotpoint tar 1 (numknots tar 1)
dm.row1=getoutvec tar 1 1--lengthtangent tar 1 1--dh.z
)
(p.x<0):(dm.row4=getknotpoint tar 1 1
dm.row1=getinvec tar 1 1
)
default:(dm.row4=(lengthinterp tar 1 (p.x*dh.z))
dm.row1=lengthtangent tar 1 (p.x*dh.z)
)
)
p.x=0
--if i==2 then $D1.pos=(lengthinterp tar 1 (100*dh.z))
dm.row3=normalize( (pathinterp tar2 1 (nearestpathparam tar2 dm.row4)) - dm.row4 )
dm.row3=normalize( dm.row3-((dot dm.row3 dm.row1)*dm.row1) )
dm.row2=cross dm.row3 dm.row1
p*dm
--(inverse(this.gizmo.transform))
)catch(p)
)
)
It works well enough. It's slow and all, but that's not the problem. It gives me errors after I close or open the file with this modifier and sometimes with heavy meshes too. Says something along the lines "unknown error encountered while performing garbage collection of maxscript. If you get this multiple times, consider restarting max"
The help says it might have a lot to do with local variables, but I don't think I can do this without them. Or would declaring those in parameter block help? I'm in bit of a hurry now so can't spend too much time testing aimlessly
plugin simpleMod pdeforms
name:"pathdeform bank"
classID:#(0x2728c9fd, 0x2b2d8d86)
(
local dh=[0,0,0]
local dm=matrix3 0 --matrix data
parameters main rollout:params
(
amount type:#integer ui:amtSpin default:0
tar type:#node
tar2 type:#node
b type:#floattab tabsizevariable:true
)
rollout params "path parameters"
(
spinner amtSpin "Amount: " type:#integer range:[0,1000,0]
button node "path"
button node2 "path2"
on node pressed do(
tar=pickobject()
if tar!=undefined then(
node.text=tar.name
ze=(getknotpoint tar 1 1)-center
)
)
on node2 pressed do(
tar2=pickobject()
if tar2!=undefined then(
node2.text=tar2.name
--ze=(getknotpoint tar 1 1)-center
)
)
)
on map i p do
(
try(
if i==1 then(
b=getseglengths tar 1
dh.x=b[b.count]
dh.z=1/(dh.x)
)
p.x+=amount
case of(
(p.x>dh.x):(dm.row4=getknotpoint tar 1 (numknots tar 1)
dm.row1=getoutvec tar 1 1--lengthtangent tar 1 1--dh.z
)
(p.x<0):(dm.row4=getknotpoint tar 1 1
dm.row1=getinvec tar 1 1
)
default:(dm.row4=(lengthinterp tar 1 (p.x*dh.z))
dm.row1=lengthtangent tar 1 (p.x*dh.z)
)
)
p.x=0
--if i==2 then $D1.pos=(lengthinterp tar 1 (100*dh.z))
dm.row3=normalize( (pathinterp tar2 1 (nearestpathparam tar2 dm.row4)) - dm.row4 )
dm.row3=normalize( dm.row3-((dot dm.row3 dm.row1)*dm.row1) )
dm.row2=cross dm.row3 dm.row1
p*dm
--(inverse(this.gizmo.transform))
)catch(p)
)
)