[Plugin] Scale and Rotate Multiple (UPDATED Dec 22, 09)

Chris Fullmer · 14 Mar 2009, 00:04

Scale and Rotate Multiple

Description: This script takes a selection of groups/components and scales and rotates them based on their centerpoint, the world axis, their axis location, or the component base.

Usage: Select the components and/or groups to be scaled and/or rotated. Run the plugin at Plugins>Chris Fullmer Tools>Scale Multiple> . There are two plugins found here. One will scale everything equally. The other will scale them randomly based on minimum and maximum provided values. NOTE: The scale factors are not percentages. They are factors. Which means if you want to scale something to be twice as large, you enter 2. If you want something to be one half the size, enter .5 . Entering 50 will not a result that is 50% the original, but will give a result that is 50 times larger than the original.

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Chris

UPDATES v2.0

Fixed a bug where it didn't let you scale items more than once using Axis. Should work over and over now.
Added "Component Base" support for those of us who don't set our component axes. This uses the bottom center of the component.
Added much more reliable FaceMe component support (I hope).
Added Rotation capability. Uniform and random with user specified min/max values.
v2.5 - SU 7.1 compatibility fix
Fixed scaling so that Face Me components don't freak out like they have been doing since 7.1 was introduced. Big Thanks to Edson and Thom for helping figure out what was breaking.
Cleaned up some code - a big chunk thanks to a tip from TIG!

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v2.5

xrok1 · 14 Mar 2009, 00:48

just when i convinced myself i didn't need to DL any more plugins

BTW you might as well add rotate and random rotate to this script too. then it would be twice as useful.

Chris Fullmer · 14 Mar 2009, 01:08

Randor.rb does a random scale/rotate thing. Its not super complete, as it does not let you specify the min/max values. But it is a good choice if you want a script that does random scale/rotate for making mass amounts of componeonts looks slightly different (like plants specifically).

But who knows, maybe I'll take that on in time.

This script might be useful enough to have its own toolbar. Maybe I'll do that tonight.

Chris

pilou · 14 Mar 2009, 01:12

An another simple but useful one

xrok1 · 14 Mar 2009, 01:16

you've come this far.

finish yours and i'll give you my three bucks.

Chris Fullmer · 14 Mar 2009, 01:39

All right, I got the video made and uploaded. Check it out if you have any questions about what this plugin does.

Chris

pilou · 14 Mar 2009, 01:45

You show all same object but that works also with any collection of objects!

MALAISE · 14 Mar 2009, 08:23

Still clear explanations
Champagne !

MALAISE

Pixero · 14 Mar 2009, 09:05

Big thanks.

After initial test I dont think I expressed what I wanted very well. Could be that english is not my native language or that I was tired.
Anyway. What I would like is another option: the center of each components bounding box at the bounding box min (in Z).
Many Groups or components dont have the axis at the center (if you're lazy like me)
So that option would also be great.

pilou · 14 Mar 2009, 11:57

@unknownuser said:

(if you're lazy like me)

Me too
So yes cool suggestion!
Maybe not change the axis but yes take the middle of the Box z mini

Chris Fullmer · 14 Mar 2009, 14:27

Sure, that should be easy enough to put in place. There are quite a few good bounding box control options built in, so it should not be too hard to find the center of the "bottom" of the bounding box. Hopefully it will work even after the component is rotated on its head. I would imagine that in that scenario it would still be preferable to use the same point that would be used if the component were not on its head, right? So the point should be the same on the component, no matter what the orientation of the component is?

Thanks for the feedback and positive comments. I'll see what I can do. Its early morning here right now and I'll be gone much of the day at a St.Patricks Day (US Holiday) parade in San Francisco. When I get home this afternoon I'll get back to work

Chris

bagatelo · 14 Mar 2009, 14:49

Ei Chris, thank you for the manuscript, I liked a lot.
But... maybe you can improve the manuscript for increasing a function of rotate objects randomly.
This can be very good tool to work with 3D plants or similar.

Thanks anyway.

coulteri · 19 Mar 2009, 09:11

Thanks a lot! That´s just it, I´ve requested here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17328

Ben Ritter · 19 Mar 2009, 14:09

Chris, thanks again for your generosity.

Chris Fullmer · 19 Mar 2009, 15:17

@pixero said:

Big thanks.

After initial test I dont think I expressed what I wanted very well. Could be that english is not my native language or that I was tired.
Anyway. What I would like is another option: the center of each components bounding box at the bounding box min (in Z).
Many Groups or components dont have the axis at the center (if you're lazy like me)
So that option would also be great.

Don't think I've forgotten about your request Jan. I have a working version that does what you asked for. But it was remarkably more difficult to code that I had expected due to some faceme component issues. But I think I've got it worked out. There are just some bugs that I need to work out. But otherwise, its almost ready. As soon as I get some to put into it, I'll get the next version released.

Glad others are finding it useful, thanks for commenting!

Chris

Pixero · 19 Mar 2009, 16:25

Good to hear. I was about to ask about your progress.
What about rotation?

dylan · 20 Mar 2009, 08:08

I missed this one, thanks Chris.

I agree a random rotate in with it would be excellent, but it is easy to request these things when you are not the one creating them!

Chris Fullmer · 23 Mar 2009, 04:19

All right, wishes granted! I just updated this script and it now has the "Component Base" scale point option as suggested by Jan. Sorry it took so long to implement. I kept hitting little speedbumps along the road with that feature. I think it is working quite well now.

I've also added rotation. It rotates on the same base point as the scaling.

I also updated the video in the first post to explain the new features. Here's a full feature list for the version 2.0 update:

Fixed a bug where it didn't let you scale items more than once using Axis. Should work over and over now.
Added "Component Base" support for those of us who don't set our component axes. This uses the bottom center of the component.
Added much more reliable FaceMe component support (I hope).
Added Rotation capability. Uniform and random with user specified min/max values.

I tried to test it thoroughly, but its possible there are still bugs. Let me know (as I'm sure you will) if you find something,

Chris

Chris Fullmer · 23 Mar 2009, 04:23

I forgot to mention that I changed the filename (sorry). It was clf_scale_multiple.rb. That should be deleted. And then install the new one which is clf_scale_rotate_multiple.rb

Chris

xrok1 · 23 Mar 2009, 04:34

KUDOs, we are all very fortunate to have you here.