Delete polys that are too close

[MoonDoggie]

for f = 1 to facecount do
(
for g = f+1 to facecount do
(append distancearray ( distance facearray[f] facearray[g]))

)


This doesn't make sense at all, because if it's on f = 3 face 3, then g will start at 4 and completely miss 1 and 2...

Also you can consolodate these two loops into one


for f = 1 to facecount do
(
loc = polyop.getFaceCenter $ f
faceNum = f as string
print "face #:" + faceNum
print loc
append faceArray loc

-- You now need to loop through all the other faces and store the distance
for g = 1 to facecount where g != f do
append distancearray (distance faceArray[f] faceArray[g])
)
print distanceArray





Should get you started,
Colin

[displaced]

Cheers Moondoggie

that made more sense to me know......

so here is where i've got to



(

Global distancearray = #()
Global facearray = #()
Global facecount
Global distancevalue = 0
Global selectionface = #()
Global Facenum
Global Selectface = #()


rollout deletepolys "Delete Polys" width:227 height:161
(


-- ROLLOUT FUNCTIONS --------------------------------------------
bitmap bmp1 "Bitmap" pos:[5,6] width:217 height:45
spinner spn_distance "Distance" pos:[33,73] width:156 height:16
groupBox grp1 "" pos:[5,51] width:216 height:102
button dist_select "select" pos:[21,108] width:73 height:29
button dist_delete "delete" pos:[122,108] width:73 height:29
---------------------------------------------------------------------------



--WORKINGS--------------------------------------------------------------
on spn_distance changed spn_amunt do (distancevalue = spn_amunt)


on dist_select pressed do
(

facecount = polyop.getnumfaces $
facearray = #()
distancearray = #()
selectface = #()

for f = 1 to facecount do
(
loc = polyop.getFaceCenter $ f
faceNum = f as string
print "face #:" + faceNum
print loc
append faceArray loc
)
for f = 1 to facecount do
(
for g = 1 to facecount where g != f do
(
append distancearray (distance faceArray[f] faceArray[g])

)
)
print distanceArray

for h = 1 to distancearray.count do
(
if distancearray[h] < distancevalue then (append selectface h)
)
print selectface
)
)



createDialog deletepolys pos:[100,130] style:#(#style_minimizebox, #style_titlebar, #style_sysmenu)

)




now this does exactly what i thought i wanted it do to.....

I get back a series of numbers which relate to the distances that are below my pre determined value.....

the problem is now how to get the original poly number from the these values.....

and also if two polys are a set distance apart both will be highlighted as they are both the same distance from each other and below this pre determined value, but i only want to select one of these polys as deleting both would be pointless.

this is where its confusing me.....as im not sure how to code the selection of just one of these polys......

Cheers

[MoonDoggie]

I understand, I just had that problem too with a script of mine. What I did was store the original face in the first member of an array

local faceArray = #()
faceArray[1] = theOriginalFace


then when I added faces to the array I appended them to 'faceArray', when I went to delete them, I never deleted the first member of the faceArray (the original face).

This obviously won't work if you allow multiple face selections, so you could easily separate out the arrays for the original faceSelection array (all the faces they have selected to iterate over) and the faceArray which only stores the values gathered from checking distances, and always just delete faceArray.

Hope that helps,
Colin

[displaced]

Cheers Again..


thats a good idea. I'll have a stab at that, and i'll post my results.

[MoonDoggie]

All good men named Colin.

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