Hi there you maxscript Gurus.
Where are you LFShade and Mr Bobo?
Anyway, I got a doubt on an automation script of my own.
I need to align copies of a original object to each vertex normal.
I have reached the stage below so far, but got stucked and rotation.
indexx = undefined
Addmodifier $dome (Mesh_Select())
VertexCount = getnumverts $dome
for indexx in 1 to VertexCount do (
print (getNormal $dome indexx)
VertexPosition = getvert $dome indexx
objCopy = copy $source
objCopy.pos = VertexPosition
)
How can I apply each vertex normal to the new object matrix transform?
I am completely sure you’ve got the answer right away!
Thank you, thank you and thank you!
As you have vertex normal you have only one vertor for matrix. You have to define another one to create a matrix. If you don’t care about spin about vertex normal direction you can use matrixFromNormal or arbMatrix (both these function use world UP vector as second vector to create the matrix):
-- objCopy.pos = VertexPosition change this line to
objCopy.transform = translate (matrixFromNormal (getNormal $dome indexx)) VertexPosition
Hi Denis!
Works nicely!
Thanks!
Hi! I still need help
Why my new copies are getting re-scaled to a bigger size?
how can I retain the original size?
because matrixfromnormal creates matrix with scale [1,1,1]… if you want to keep original node’s scale you have to build matrix in the different way:
_scale = <your_node>.transform.scale
<your_node>.transform = translate (rotate (scalematrix _scale) (matrixfromnormal vertNormal).rotation) vertPos
something like that