Selective loft

Hi guys!

My problem may appear very easy to solve, but i still didn't find a way:

I've a branch of flatten data like that:

{0}

0 Poly Curve

1 Poly Curve

2 Poly Curve

3 Poly Curve

4 Poly Curve

5 Poly Curve

6 Poly Curve

7 Poly Curve ... etc

I need to loft half of them as a pattern like 2 by 2... ex:

0 with 1 ---> loft

1 with 2 ---> no loft

2 with 3 ---> loft

3 with 4 ---> loft

4 w.... etc.

In my case (as you can see in the screenshot) i've two list in whic i've to apply this process.

I can't use list items because the numbers of items may change, and if i get a grafted list of items i can't loft the curves, but if i get the flattened pattern of data the loft component loft everything without considering the sequence.

I guess i've been clear to explain my data structure problem!

Pls! I'm waiting for some help!!! Thx a lot in advance,

Marco

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Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on February 12, 2012 at 9:23am

* errata corrige: 2 with 3 ---> No loft

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on February 12, 2012 at 10:49am

Ups... 3 with 4 eheh ....so one yes one no

Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on February 12, 2012 at 12:23pm

List items should work. Just plug in a series component to select just the ones you want. E.g. Start number 0, step size 2, number of values in the series = the list length of the list of curves.

So two series, two list items, two grafts and a loft.

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on February 12, 2012 at 1:59pm

Thx Brian, but mmmh... no I've tried in that way but doesn't work, because what i need is to create a sort of group of items each couple {0} 0;1 {1} 2;3 {3} 4;5 etc... each 2 list items have to became a new branch... how can i do that? :(

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 12, 2012 at 2:20pm

What Brian is suggesting will work, you simply have to graft the output of the series components.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 12, 2012 at 2:21pm

Oh and don't worry about the red loft... there are some nulls in there because I set the series to go way higher than necessary.

Permalink Reply by Marco Caprani on February 12, 2012 at 2:45pm

Uh yes! It works perfectly, sorry but I didn't get what Brian suggested to me exactly! Sorry, i've missed the second part with the injection of the new merged index into another item list component! So thank you Brain and thank you Andrew for your help! :)

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on February 12, 2012 at 2:56pm