Center of Editable Mesh face

Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-07-19 13:42

I'm trying to loop through an entire mesh finding the point 3 value of the center of each polygon of an editableMesh.

I have found out how to do it for an editable poly but not and editable mesh.
--newPos = polyop.getFaceCenter $ f --EditablePoly

--Editable Polygon Face
	numFaces = $.numfaces/2
	for f = 1 to numFaces do
	(
		newPos = --EditableMesh
		print newPos
	)

General Scripting

Comments

Submitted by JokerMartini on Wed, 2011-07-20 09:39.

Script

I was working on a script for the public and I would like it to work with editableMesh and EditablePoly that was really the only reason.

John Martini
Digital Artist
http://www.JokerMartini.com (new site)

Submitted by Anubis on Wed, 2011-07-20 09:18.

heh...

Of course the mesh and poly are not the same :) The polygon in epoly may consist of 1, 2 or more faces. Why just not convert your mesh (the original or snapshot) to epoly? Make your life easy.

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Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-07-19 22:51.

Results....

Because the editable mesh is a triangulated mesh the results are not what I was expecting.

If you run this code you'll see.
It's creating twice as many spheres as it needs and they are not at the center of the entire polygon. Should I loop through and for every two spheres create a sphere at the middle distance of the 2 spheres created to get the proper sphere placement at the center of the actual polygon?

--Editable Mesh Face
	numFaces = $.numfaces
	for f = 1 to numFaces do
	(
		newPos = meshop.getFaceCenter $ f -- EditableMesh
		sphere radius:1 pos:NewPos
		print newPos
	)

John Martini
Digital Artist
http://www.JokerMartini.com (new site)

Submitted by Anubis on Tue, 2011-07-19 15:48.

meshop.getFaceCenter

meshop.getFaceCenter