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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Kevinaz on November 08, 2008, 09:31:36 pm
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hi everybody,
its been a LONG time since i posted anything. its good to be back.
ok, so i'm wondering, if its at all possible, to align points to an axis? like selecting a group of points, and align all to x or y axis. eg, i have a model that is supposed to be perfectly straight on one side but over time/sloppy modeling, they are kinda messed up. i really dont want to manually arrange every single point, so im wondering if there is a way to do this automatically.
if this feature doesnt already exist, it would be cool to have!
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Points ..... don't think so, but with faces you can. select the faces you want to 'flatten' then go to Object Flatten. and chose x y z or normal.
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Put pivot on the line you want to align the points, then select all points you want to align, then use non-uniform scale on the axis that fits.
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Wow, nice trick francesco! Learned something about the tools I didn't know before. ;D
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Though I do think that would be both an excellent script, and an excellent feature for the future.
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You could use this also:
http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1309.0;attach=1725
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Sorry for posting that message above so short and sharp, but I happen to post from my mobile phone, sometimes, and I'm afraid of wearing out my thumb ;).
No, jokes apart, I see that Kevinaz did not reply still, but I guess we have already pointed out enough solutions for that missing feature.
I have a further one, since the code was there, ready to be slightly modified and used, I released some scripts that allow easy and fast alignment of points as well as of meshes ("easy" and "fast" are matter of personal measure ok :P ;) )
I hope you can take advantage of the align tools I added to the magnet tools (http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=1599.0).
( Thank you VBSmiles!
"Never forget the Power of Workarounds" ;) )