Straight Line Between Two Points (Simliar tTo Make

Playdo · Feb 2010

Is there a way to select two vertices and then have all the vertices inbetween align? The way I've been doing it is to use Make Planar and then rotate but it's tedious and problematic.

JohnnySix · Feb 2010

There's probably a script around on it, you'd just find the vector between the start and end points and move the intervening vertices to the closest point along that line.

I could do it in Uscript, but no clue about maxscript.

Renderhjs one of the resident script wizards probably has something, or will likely be able to whip it up in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee.

PolyHertz · Feb 2010

Like this?:

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/straighten-edge

Mark Dygert · Feb 2010

It helps to mention which app when asking for stuff like this.

Something like this?

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/straighten-edge

There probably are other scripts that do the same thing or something similar.
Check the usual haunts: scriptspot, Neil Blevins Scripts, maxplugins.de, google... err thats all I've got at this early hour...

Playdo · Feb 2010

Forgot to mention, I'm using Max. Perfect, that's just what I'm looking for. Thanks.

Another thing: Is there anything similar but to curve the line. ie like a soft selection on a line instead of an area?

DarthNater · Feb 2010

I never really use it but wouldn't relax give you a similar effect to what you're second question is?

Playdo · Feb 2010

No relax will weaken the vertices depending on what's around them. I'm looking for something so I can easily produce even curves.

Michael Knubben · Feb 2010

I came across a script that did this, only recently. I can't remember where, or what its name was, so fat load of good that will do you, but I'm hoping when I bump this, someone else will remember

Playdo · Feb 2010

Playdo wrote: »

Perfect, that's just what I'm looking for

I take that back. Unless I'm doing something wrong. Is there a way to constrain the alignment to the Edge or Face for when working on curved surfaces so I can produce a straight line in one viewport and it won't mess up the form?

pior · Feb 2010

Im actually looking for that too. Its badly phrased in the examples above but basically : keeping the main curvature in space, but flattening the curve on a certain plane of reference. Kind of like flatten to view for faces ...

Playdo · Feb 2010

A picture says a thousand words eh

. Yeah, it would save me a LOT of time. I'm constantly lining up vertices.

Michael Knubben · Mar 2010

I know for sure that there's a Blender script that does this, heh. And I know that --upon seeing it-- I wanted to have it in max. I was almost sure I'd found a similar script for max, but now I can't recall its name, or where I found it.
Might just have been wishfull thinking

edit: here's the blender script. It does more than just this, and looks pretty damned handy. Maybe the code could be helpful in making a max version? http://vimeo.com/4296939

Playdo · Mar 2010

That script seems great. How it can curve between two loops - SO useful. I wouldn't know where to start coding with this, it's not my strong point. I'd love to see this in Max, it's such a shame that they've ignored useful features like this in past releases.

DeadlyFreeze · Mar 2010

Seems like polyboost has a function like that, but I don't have it in front of me atm.

Playdo · Mar 2010

Wow man, you've just come out of a 4 year deep freeze

. If you're talking about Set Flow, it's not the same.

SyncViewS · Mar 2010

DeadlyFreeze is right. PolyBoost had some of these features since version 3.0.

Look at this video: http://hem.bredband.net/polyboost/PolyBoost3_video.avi

malcolm · Mar 2010

If anyone is looking for the maya version it's here, works great.

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/misc/c/zannaalign

Michael Knubben · Mar 2010

Ack, I keep forgetting half of the stuff that's in there. People keep talking up the old interface, but let's be honest here, it's a mess of abbreviated buttons.

Playdo · Mar 2010

I don't have Max in front of me. Are those features in Polyboost 3+4 in Max 2010's Graphite tools?

Dreamexpress · Mar 2010

That curve loop showed in the polyboost vid is in max 2010. Search for "loop tools dialog" in the help files.

Playdo · Mar 2010

Got it. I wish I knew about this sooner, I'm going to have some fun with this.

One thing .. Is there a way to restrict where the curve starts and ends? At the mo I'm deleting the edges at the beginning and the end of the loop to restrict the curve to that loop.

CodeFather · Mar 2010

Playdo wrote: »

Got it. I wish I knew about this sooner, I'm going to have some fun with this.

One thing .. Is there a way to restrict where the curve starts and ends? At the mo I'm deleting the edges at the beginning and the end of the loop to restrict the curve to that loop.

there is no need to delete edges: under the "loop tools", there is an "AutoLoop" option which you should turn off, then select a vertex for the highest point, finally select all edges you want to curve and hit the "curve" button.

Straight Line Between Two Points (Simliar tTo Make

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