create a box on every face normal center from selected object

Submitted by Ulrich Thümmler on Tue, 2025-01-28 06:06

Hi,

i need a script that create a box, teapot whatever on every face center with normal align from selected object.

regrads,
Ulrich

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Submitted by miauu on Tue, 2025-02-18 05:39.

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This can be achieved in different ways. This is one of them:

(
	objToCreate = Teapot()
 
	delSurfaceObj = false
	surfaceObj = selection[1]
	if classOf surfaceObj != Editable_Poly do
	(
		surfaceObj = convertToPoly (copy surfaceObj)	
		delSurfaceObj = true
	)
	facesCnt = polyop.getNumFaces surfaceObj	
	for f = 1 to facesCnt do
	(
		obj = instance objToCreate
		obj.pos = polyop.getSafeFaceCenter surfaceObj f
		obj.dir = polyop.getFaceNormal surfaceObj f
	)	
	delete objToCreate
	if delSurfaceObj == true do delete surfaceObj
)

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