Get In Line! (May 9,2011)

Submitted by JokerMartini on Mon, 2011-03-28 14:48
35 votes
Version: 
5.0
Date Updated: 
04/09/2011
Author Name: 
JokerMartini

This script evenly distributes the selected objects based on the start and end target objects.

Anyone is more than welcome to add to this.
Things you could potentially add are qsorting, transform, scale, and rotation sorting as well.

Right now it just does position.

Features

- V1.0 | Distribute selected objects evenly between two targeted objects

- V2.0 | Random position offset for each object on X,Y,Z

- V3.0 | Functionality code rewrite

- V4.0 | Offset position adjustments and bug fixes

- V5.0 | New UI design and random positioning along vector
- V5.0 | Custom Axis selecting for position aligning individually for X,Y,Z.

WishList

- Distribute Option for each axis individually X,Y,Z
- Distribute Rotation
- QSort selected objects (will allow for animating ex:spring)

Links
Homepage URL: 
http://www.jokermartini.com
Download URL: 
http://www.jokermartini.com

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Submitted by sergo on Thu, 2011-05-05 05:36.

randomness and interactivity

It would be very cool If you could add some kind of random options:

  1. randomness in ordering - to have more diverse row of objects. (I think just turning off the ordering would be sufficient)
  2. randomness in intervals - to have objects aligned in more natural way.
  3. randomness in positioning - to have objects aligned not in straight line but a little bit scattered. (this could be accompished by using some other scripts, but th second option could not be accomplished considering non-orthogonal aligning)

And other (little bit harder to implement) option is interactivity - to have an ability to move the head or tail and objects between them rebuilt interactively. This could happen only during the script window is open.

JokerMartini's picture
Submitted by JokerMartini on Tue, 2011-05-03 09:09.

Glad

I'm glad to hear this us useful for a lot of people.
Does anyone have any ideas on ways to further develop this?
I'd be sure to jump on board and add anything people might want to see in this.

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

art0411's picture
Submitted by art0411 on Tue, 2011-05-03 02:12.

gooooooood!!

gooooooood!!

good

sergo's picture
Submitted by sergo on Tue, 2011-04-26 17:31.

This is the most amazing

This is the most amazing little tool. Another one is Shuffle.
Thank you, you've made my job lot easier.

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Submitted by tassel on Thu, 2011-03-31 00:27.

First thing that crossed my

First thing that crossed my mind when i saw this was:

What about add functionality that lets you pick for example an spline and make the possibility to make an loft/profile of the spline between these 2 points?

Nice script by the way :)

/ Raymond

JokerMartini's picture
Submitted by JokerMartini on Wed, 2011-03-30 09:36.

Develop

If everyone wants to, we could all dive into further developing this if wanted.

We could first start a wishlist, because I could see this being very useful as well.

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

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Submitted by tommym on Wed, 2011-03-30 00:51.

Get in line

This may have a lot of potential.
Will it do the same on vectors from a center point?
Thanks from Paul

Paul

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