Whats the most economical way to relax a set of verts in a mesh if you were to do it script wise vs with the mod. Id love to see a purely scripted function to incorporate into a test I’m working on…
Thanks!
-Michael
relax, don’t do it…
there is the c++ source code for relax in the sdk, maybe you should start there.
Naturally its in there there and I didnt look. Thanks.
-Michael
Haha, I do understand where you’re coming from but there’s merit enough for the existence of relax, I use it a lot for animated deformations, especially in medical animations it’s very useful!
But sure toporelax would be a very welcome addition to max.
-Johan
Yep there is a research paper volume preserving relax that I should look for again. its nice as it will keep all you’re verts from collapsing into a single point with high iterations.Ive thought about coding it up as a mod just for fun.
-Michael
Sure, he is using something very similar to the paper I was talking about if not the exact posted solution. Im thinking that the how of replicating it was more of the question. Ill see if I can find the paper tomorrow.
-Michael
There is something missing in Marius’ Toporelax, though. I’ve found that it has problems in some circumstances. For example, on a simple Tube() primitive it will never produce correct relaxing around the edge loop between where the beginning verts #s connect with the highest vert #s. I’ve seen it in other circumstances as well. It’s certainly mostly right, but is missing some piece of logic.
toporelax is one of my most used script/plugins
it helps me alot when making facial topology
im not a good artist though
seems like a fun script. I’ll see if i can put something together.
I model the majority of the time at work and I’d have to say that i use relax quite often.