Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Loop-making script

Cage opened this issue on Apr 03, 2010 · 610 posts


Cage posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 11:38 PM

Quote - I made some bands for Antonia. Still a WIP as it needs JCM to match Antonia's JCM. Now if I can figure out how to make a reef knot...

Nice one!  :laugh:  :thumbupboth:

I've been trying to think about things like knots, but I'm not quite sure how that would even need to be approached, at this point.  I think a more sophisticated way of defining a path would be required.  If the path could be defined, the basic extrusion process used for the loops could be applied, possibly with some addition to cap any open ends.  Not sure how to define that path, though.  😕

I'm thinking about this mirror feature.  What if you could set the option to mirror and then, if the plane is translated on X or rotated on Y or Z, a second pass would be automatically run, to create the mirrored loop in the same script run as the original?  That would circumvent all of the callback complications and remove any need to keep the plane around after the script run, as well as avoid futzing about with ERC insertion poses or copying methods, clipboard-related or not.  A similar approach could be used to run a batch of loops, stacked along the plane's Y axis at user-defined intervals.

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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.