[Closed] Edit_Normals() – vert pos in vert normal?

First, you have to understand that any vertex can have as many normals as many faces using this vertex. So, normal ID doesn’t correspond to vertex ID. If you want to get all normals corresponding to vertex id you have to use ConvertVertexSelection (check Edit Normals help), or GetNormalID and GetVertexID by face and by corner.

node = <your node>
modi = <Edit_Normals Modifier>
[color=white][/color]
norms = #{}
modi.ConvertVertexSelection #{vert_id} norms node:node -- it returns norms as a bitarray of normal ids

Second, you have use average normal for every vertex:

av_norm = [0,0,0]
for n in norms do av_norm += modi.GetNormal n node:node
av_norm /= norms.numberset
av_norm = normalize av_norm -- average normal

PS. Using Edit_Normals modifier in your case is the absolutely right solution.

thanks for the reply… keen to try it out, but again, stuck on MaxScript not executing code in the script, but it will in the Listener.

Now I’m trying to expand the Edit Normals modifer to select all verts.

addModifier obj (EditNormals()) ui:on   
obj.modifiers[#Edit_Normals].displayLength = 150  
modPanel.setCurrentObject obj.modifiers[#Edit_Normals]
subobjectlevel = 1   
obj.modifiers[#Edit_Normals].EditNormalsMod.SetSelection #{1..vertCount}

this works perfectly if executed line by line in the listener… but the exact same code will not work in a running script!

Why is this?! I’ve come accross this in other scripts as well!

here is a snippet that shows how apply and edit Edit_Normals modifier:

try(destroydialog testRol) catch()
rollout testRol "Edit Normals by denisT" 
(
 button create "Create" width:180 offset:[0,4]
 
 on create pressed do undo "Create" on 
 (
  try (delete objects) catch()
  obj = sphere name:"testNormals" isSelected:on
  modi = EditNormals name:"_enormal" displayLength:150 
  addModifier obj modi ui:on   
  if getCommandPanelTaskMode() != #modify do setCommandPanelTaskMode mode:#modify
  modi.SetSelection #{1..50} node:obj  
 )
)
createdialog testRol width:200 height:40

cool, creating the modifier like that did the trick…
thanks for the help!

btw – why is it that some commands (even sequences of) can be executed without a problem in listener, but they simply will not work in a script? They run with no errors… they just don’t do anything! Such as my example above.

Cheers!

hmm, i just noted that if you conver to an edit poly or editable poly it destroys anything the edit_normals modifier did, converting to edit_mesh, editable_mesh is fine though!