Hello everyone.
I am working on a script that will select the edges of a mesh whose attached faces fall below a certain angle threshold. If the two faces are say, less than 10 degrees in their hinge angle, the edge will be selected.
The problem I am having is getting the angle between two faces attached to a common edge.
Heres an excerpt of the script:
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local edge_selection = #{}
local base_obj = $.baseobject
local num_edges = polyop.getNumEdges base_obj
for f = 1 to num_edges do
(
local edge_faces = polyop.getEdgeFaces base_obj f
local faces_angle = polyop.getFacesAngle edge_faces
if faces_angle < 10 do edge_selection[f] = true
)
///////////////////////////////////////////////
Of course, there is no “polyop.getFacesAngle”, that returns the angle between two faces, but this illustrates what I am trying to do.
So how can I do this? Any Ideas are appreciated!
Thanks!
Get the normal for each face and compare the angle between them. If you run into trouble with that I can help, but I’m all out of time for an example right now.
RH
Thank you so much! Ok heres the whole thing, seems to work!
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macroscript Select_Low_Angle_Edges
(
on isEnabled return
(
selection.count == 1 and classOf selection[1].baseobject == Editable_Poly
)
on execute do
(
local edge_selection = #{}
local base_obj = $.baseobject
local num_edges = polyop.getNumEdges base_obj
local edge_faces = #() – array to hold selected edge faces
for f = 1 to num_edges do
(
edge_faces = polyop.getEdgeFaces base_obj f
local face_angle1 = polyop.getFaceNormal base_obj edge_faces[1]
local face_angle2 = polyop.getFaceNormal base_obj edge_faces[2]
local faces_angle_diff = (acos (dot face_angle1 face_angle2))
if faces_angle_diff < 5 do edge_selection[f] = true
)
polyop.setEdgeSelection base_obj edge_selection
max modify mode
modPanel.setCurrentObject base_obj
subobjectlevel = 2
)
)
////////////////////////////////////////////
Thanks!