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

DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ · 8 Oct 2009, 23:15

hi Chris
I proposed an idea on the forum.
viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22569
If you have not seen her.
I think your plugins, could adapt well to the idea

Scale and Rotate Multiple

interested? is possible?

greetings

majid · 25 Oct 2009, 14:24

recently I saw this. thank you for generousity

Chris Fullmer · 25 Oct 2009, 17:52

I just got a report that this might not be working right in 7.1!

So if you use it and it moves components all over th place, instead of just scaling them, please let me know. I need to look into it.

But otherwise I hope you find it useful

Chris

Chris Fullmer · 10 Dec 2009, 20:21

Can any Mac users verify if this script is working on SU 7.1? It appears to working great on Vista, SU 7.1 but I still have a report or two of it not working.

Anyone have any example files where it is not working for them?

Thanks

Chris

thomthom · 10 Dec 2009, 20:39

@chris fullmer said:

Can any Mac users verify if this script is working on SU 7.1? It appears to working great on Vista, SU 7.1 but I still have a report or two of it not working.

Anyone have any example files where it is not working for them?

Thanks

Chris

SU 7.1M1, OSX10.4
A´OK!

Chris Fullmer · 10 Dec 2009, 21:12

Thanks Thom!

I should mention what is not working for some, just in case you just verified it loaded.

I have heard 2 or 3 reports of this plugin thoring components all over the place, instead of using their axes. It seems that for some, this plugin does not scale and rotate according to the specified axes.

So if anyone still feels like testing further, awesome. Otherwise, I'll write a debugging version and give that to anyone who wants to test it out, see what is broken on their system.

Thanks again,

Chris

thomthom · 10 Dec 2009, 21:18

I just tried the random rotate and scale. That worked as expected. But if you have specific procedures that's reported to fail, then I can try that.

Pixero · 10 Dec 2009, 21:53

Yeah, I've seen that two times recently when using axis.
When I choose component base everything was o.k. though.

Chris Fullmer · 10 Dec 2009, 22:24

Has it been on all components? or is just on face-me perhaps?

thomthom · 10 Dec 2009, 22:33

I tried with groups, components and face-me components. Can't reproduce.

...maybe it has to do with nesting..?

thomthom · 10 Dec 2009, 22:37

just noticed something when orbiting after random rotate and scale; face-me components float about all over the place.

thomthom · 10 Dec 2009, 22:42

that also occurs on PC.
See attached file for a sample of dancing Sang!

dancing_sangs.skp

IAGDint · 14 Dec 2009, 16:57

great. thanks.

Edson · 14 Dec 2009, 17:12

@thomthom said:

just noticed something when orbiting after random rotate and scale; face-me components float about all over the place.

this is exactly what happens with me. as you orbit they scatter all over the place.

thomthom · 14 Dec 2009, 17:24

@edson said:

@thomthom said:

just noticed something when orbiting after random rotate and scale; face-me components float about all over the place.

this is exactly what happens with me. as you orbit they scatter all over the place.

Chris has found this to be a bug in SU. He'd working on a workaround.

Chris Fullmer · 14 Dec 2009, 17:39

Yes, this was an interesting bug to track down. It includes a few steps to get around it, but I have it working. I just have not been able to find time to work it into this script yet. And when I release it I'll owe a few big "thank you's" to a bunch of helpful people out there.

Chris

thomthom · 21 Dec 2009, 12:54

Chrisssss! I used your plugin on a forest of faceme trees - quickly found myself in a mad frenzy of trees dancing ghostly around.

Update? pretty pleeeease!

TIG · 21 Dec 2009, 13:00

Chris
My idea of making its faceme false doing the rotation then resetting its faceme back again should be easy to include ?

thomthom · 21 Dec 2009, 13:06

@tig said:

Chris
My idea of making its faceme false doing the rotation then resetting its faceme back again should be easy to include ?

I just tried to use the Console to turn off then on:

sel[0].definition.behavior.always_face_camera = false
Scale and Rotate Multiple
sel[0].definition.behavior.always_face_camera = true

But still got the same problem.

Chris Fullmer · 21 Dec 2009, 17:14

Hi Tig and Thom. Sorry I still haven't updated it. I've got the code all worked out, just not put into place. The issue is 2 fold - 2 different bugs at play. TIG your trick helped the part that faceme's components bounding boxes ( bounds.center ) no longer return the center of the component. The return center of entire range of motion. Which is not helpful. So I used your tip to make the faceme into a regular component, then grad the centerpoint and then I have the point to scale about. So it helps find the scale about point which is otherwise impossible since v7.1.

The dancing and jumping is another bug. You can no longer use ANY of the uniform scaling transformations on faceme components. It sort of cheats, and just adjusts the 16th matrix element. So the 16th should always be 1, but if you use (which I did) a uniform scaling method, it will change that 16th element to act as an overall scaling factor, which freaks out faceme's in 7.1.

So if you want fix it Thom, you would need to change the faceme scaling method. And I don't have the code in front of me, but it should scale by something like this:

sf = (the scale factor, as a float)
t = Geom::Transformation.new(sf,0,0,0,0,sf,0,0,0,0,sf,0,0,0,0,1)

That should scale a component uniformly by aplying the scale over the entire matrix, and not just adjust the 16th element.

Or I'll try to fix this later today (but it might be well after midnight in your neck of the woods Thom).

Chris

PS - I know very little about transformation matrices. So I apologise if I used incorrect terms or theories