Component based Scaling in Modeler??

[TheLexx]

Oliver, your scripting videos were very welcome. Is it a case of taking any Python course on Udemy ? A LW based scripting course from you would hopefully sell like hot cakes.

[oliverhotz]

Use Polygon Islands plugins- http://mentalfish.com/2009/07/stranded/

much more complete than my quick script.. i knew there had to be something out there... still, a great exercise.

[hrgiger]

Use Polygon Islands plugins- http://mentalfish.com/2009/07/stranded/

That's not the one I was thinking of so there is something else out there. Polygon Islands is interactive but you can't manipulate the view while the tool is active and the operations aren't undoable unfortunately.

[oliverhotz]

Oliver, your scripting videos were very welcome. Is it a case of taking any Python course on Udemy ? A LW based scripting course from you would hopefully sell like hot cakes.

Ryan Roye already has a lw based scripting tutorial..

[squarewulf]

Point Normal Move?

[hrgiger]

Point normal move moves a polygon (or points/edges) along its vertex normals, not scale.

[squarewulf]

Point normal move moves a polygon (or points/edges) along its vertex normals, not scale.

True, but in turn this will sometimes "scale" an object depending on its shape.

[hrgiger]

Well point normal move doesn't do any scaling. The reason some of the selections are growing are because the point normals along a 90 degree angle of a mesh are moving out diagonally so it is making the polygons larger but only because of a skewed translation. The polygons are also moving away from their original position which is not the desired result.

[djwaterman]

I'm glad the mental fish solution got mentioned, it was going to be my next suggestion. I had the plugin but never loaded it for some reason, perhaps I was under the impression it was only 32 bit. Having played around with it now it's very nice, apart from the view being locked and no undo. I does what the original poster was asking for I think.

[squarewulf]

Well point normal move doesn't do any scaling. The reason some of the selections are growing are because the point normals along a 90 degree angle of a mesh are moving out diagonally so it is making the polygons larger but only because of a skewed translation. The polygons are also moving away from their original position which is not the desired result.

It works with spheres