Is there a PlugIn for Random Face Selection?

numerobis

Hi,

is there a plugin that allows you to select a bunch of faces (or better faces and lines - or complete groups) and get a random selection of faces out of them?
...maybe with a specified % and with or without selecting the surrounding lines.

i searched, but i can't find something like this...

Didier Bur

Hi,
No, but what is this selection intended to ? Please detail.

pilou

I believe yes, I must refound that

pilou

here is it Random Selection By TIG

numerobis

Thanks Pilou!

Yes, this is what i was searching for! I knew that i had already seen this some time ago.

This works for my current task, but it would be nice to have an option to select only faces or only lines. Now it does a random selection of faces AND lines...
Ok, i can fix this with the selection filter, but it would be helpful to have it in one tool.

And the other point is, if i randomly select (e.g.) leaves of a tree to apply a different material to them, the surrounding lines of the seleted faces will remain unselected.
So it would be good to have a tool that selects the surounding lines of the faces.
Or maybe this could be done by a seperate plugin. Is there a plugin available for this?

Is this enough description, Didier?

I normally need it, to apply different materials to a selection.

Thanks!

thomthom

@numerobis said:

So it would be good to have a tool that selects the surounding lines of the faces.

Right-click > Select > Bounding Edges

numerobis

@thomthom said:

Right-click > Select > Bounding Edges

THANKS!

...now i remember that i saw this before

Chris Fullmer

These might what you need. I've got 2 plugins that help apply colors randomly to faces. Random painter, you manually enter RGB values for colors and it will color all selected faces with the colors you input.

Extrapolate colors takes existing materials in the selection and applies them to all faces in the selection. Watch the video. I use that one a lot.

Random Painter:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=16484

Extrapolate Colors:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=21455

Jim

Close eyes > Move Mouse > Click Button

numerobis

Thanks Chris! Yes, these are nice scipts too and they work for the painting part.
But i need to select the faces to put them into another group.

TIG

If you want to copy these faces into a group - first select them and then use Edit>Copy, now make a new group [perhaps draw some temporary geometry and group that] and edit it [or open an existing group] then use Edit>PasteInPlace... [erase any temporary geometry you might have made inside a 'new' group].

If you want to move the selected faces into a group - first select them and then right-click context-menu > Group. They will be cut from their current context and reproduced inside a new group, note that any common edges that are needed to maintain non-selected faces will be duplicated inside the group rather than cut+moved...