Cage opened this issue on Apr 03, 2010 · 610 posts
Cage posted Mon, 05 April 2010 at 6:32 PM
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It Worked!Thanks very much for this script, and for all the work you did making it compatible with P6.
I have not had time to give it thorough testing as yet, a couple of times my loop turned into a "D" shape, but I have been successful in making some loops, and that's the main thing.
Right on! :woot:
Thank you for your patience in helping me debug it for the older versions of Poser. I knew exactly where to look for the problem, when I tested it on my P5 this morning and encountered the same errors you'd been having. Sorry to have required beta-testing for the release, though.
It turned into a "D"? was the plane edge embedded within any geometry when this happened? That would cause that result. There can be some shaping distortion if the sections setting is too low, as well. Because the script places the rings evenly (which it does for use with tiled texturing), areas near a corner or sharp-ish curve may end up with vertices which aren't ideally placed. The loop can collapse into itself in such areas.
I'm concerned because I'm trying to counteract some acknowledged but undisclosed bugs which apparently exist in the convex hull code. If you get misshapen results when the plane position and sizing definitely weren't the causes, that would probably mean I need to try to do more to counteract any convex hull errors. I'll look at the rest of the process, to see if such an error could creep in somehow for other reasons.
I hope the script can be useful for you!
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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.