topic Re: (MEL) getting hard angled cvs ? in Maya Programming Forum

(MEL) getting hard angled cvs ?

absoluteKelvin — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 02:17:12 GMT

{ string $selected[] = `ls -sl`; string $shapes[]; float $uParam[]; vector $cvNormal[]; string $hardCV[]; for ($curve in $selected) { int $CVs =`getAttr ($curve + ".spans")`; $shapes = `listRelatives -shapes $curve`; string $nearestInfo = `createNode nearestPointOnCurve`; connectAttr -force ($shapes[0] + ".worldSpace") ($nearestInfo +".inputCurve"); for ($x = 0; $x < $CVs; $x++) { vector $location = `pointPosition ($curve + ".cv[" + $x + "]")`; setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionX") ($location.x); setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionY") ($location.y) ; setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionZ") ($location.z) ; $uParam[$x] = `getAttr ($nearestInfo + ".parameter")`; //getAttr nearestPointOnCurve1.parameter; $cvNormal[$x] = `pointOnCurve -pr $uParam[$x] -nn $curve`; //get cv normal vector //print ($Parameter + "\n"); //print ($cvNormal[$x] + "\n"); } delete $nearestInfo; if (`getAttr ($shapes[0] + ".form")` == 0) { for ($y = 0; $y < ($CVs - 1); $y++) { vector $vec1 = $cvNormal[$y]; vector $vec2 = $cvNormal[($y + 2)]; float $angle[] = `angleBetween -v1 ($vec1.x) ($vec1.y) ($vec1.z) -v2 ($vec2.x) ($vec2.y) ($vec2.z)`; print ($angle[$y] + "\n"); if (equivalentTol (90.0, $angle[4], 10) == 1){ $hardCV[size($hardCV)] = ($curve + ".cv[" + ($y + 1)+ "]"); } //print $hardCV[size($hardCV)]; } } } }

this is the code that i came up with. In theory its should give me the hard angled cvs. Not quite sure what i did wrong. Im not getting any useful angles from the angleBetween command.

Re: (MEL) getting hard angled cvs ?

jmreinhart — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:36:24 GMT

What do you mean by hard-angled cvs? Do you mean CVs where the angle the curve makes is less than 90 degrees.

If that's the case then you'll need to use the tangents of the curve not the normals. The normals are perpendicular to the curve.

Re: (MEL) getting hard angled cvs ?

absoluteKelvin — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 23:44:59 GMT

ah i see. i will look into getting the tangent.

Re: (MEL) getting hard angled cvs ?

absoluteKelvin — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:23:57 GMT

So I made the adjustment to the pointOnCurve cmd to get cv tangent instead.

supposedly it should select these cvs

like this diagram.

instead i got this as a result

{ string $selected[] = `ls -sl`; string $shapes[]; float $uParam[]; vector $cvTangent[]; string $hardCV[]; for ($curve in $selected) { int $spans =`getAttr ($curve + ".spans")`; int $degree = `getAttr ($curve + ".degree")`; int $CVs = $spans + $degree; $shapes = `listRelatives -shapes $curve`; string $nearestInfo = `createNode nearestPointOnCurve`; connectAttr -force ($shapes[0] + ".worldSpace") ($nearestInfo +".inputCurve"); for ($x = 0; $x < $CVs; $x++) { vector $location = `pointPosition ($curve + ".cv[" + $x + "]")`; setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionX") ($location.x); setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionY") ($location.y) ; setAttr ($nearestInfo + ".inPositionZ") ($location.z) ; $uParam[$x] = `getAttr ($nearestInfo + ".parameter")`; //getAttr nearestPointOnCurve1.parameter; $cvTangent[$x] = `pointOnCurve -pr $uParam[$x] -tangent $curve`; //get cv tagent //print ($uParam[$x] + "\n"); //print ($cvTangent[$x] + "\n"); } delete $nearestInfo; if (`getAttr ($shapes[0] + ".form")` == 0) { for ($y = 0; $y < ($CVs - 1); $y++) { vector $vec1 = $cvTangent[$y]; vector $vec2 = $cvTangent[($y + 2)]; float $angle[] = `angleBetween -v1 ($vec1.x) ($vec1.y) ($vec1.z) -v2 ($vec2.x) ($vec2.y) ($vec2.z)`; print ($angle[3] + "\n"); if ($angle[3] >= 45){ $hardCV[size($hardCV)] = ($curve + ".cv[" + ($y + 1)+ "]"); } } print $hardCV; select -r $hardCV; } } }

Re: (MEL) getting hard angled cvs ?

jmreinhart — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:07:26 GMT

When you have two or more CVs on top of each other the tangents are not reliable, for that last point the angle between the two tangents is greater than 90. You'll have to use a different method, like comparing the angle between the point on the curve and a point slightly behind it and ahead of it (rather than using the next CV position). So you'll need to use two short secants instead of tangents.