Cage opened this issue on Apr 03, 2010 · 610 posts
Cage posted Sat, 03 April 2010 at 9:06 PM
Basic instructions, also present in the comments at the top of the script:
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Mister Looper: a loop-making script
- Position the MR.LOOPER PLANE prop to define the plane in which your loop will be created.
- Reduce scale of plane as much as possible, for best results.
- If no vertices are found, try moving the plane closer to some vertices on your actors. If only edges are intersected, it won't run.
- Move the RUN SCRIPT dial to run.
- Move the END SCRIPT dial to end.
- Change Sections setting to alter number of radial divisions of main loop.
- Change Slices setting to alter number of divisions in each cross-section ring of loop.
- Change Thickness setting to vary radius of cross-section rings.
- Set Apply smoothing to > 0.0 to smooth the resulting loop, <= 0.0 to disable smoothing. Smoothing may shrink the loop slightly.
Possible bugs:
- Convex hull code may fail with some complex vertex selections, creating a tangle. Try re-running with the plane scale reduced, to avoid this.
- UV mapping may not be correct. U and V seem confused in some way which hasn't yet been sorted out.
As noted, I'm not sure the UV-mapping is quite correct, but I don't seem to be able to fix it just yet. Hopefully I'll be able to update it with improved UV handling, soon.
Note also that the script uses a Poser scene event callback, so if this script is run while another script is already running a callback, there could be problems.
I hope someone can get some use from this script.
Enjoy! :laugh:
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below. His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.