Paneling a non planar surface with half cutted tauruses, with spacing in between them.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on May 22, 2012 at 2:55am

I've been managing the paneling situations and I also wanted to scale my donuts with an image sampler, as you can see in the gh file. I've first tried it in a random surface [05.prova superficie.3dm] and everything was fine but when i tried to apply the panelling to another kind of surface [panel.3dm] something goes totally wrong.

I've been trying to figure out the problem, I think it's something proper with my 'evaluate surface' component and the uv coordinates.

This should be my university final work and I'M FREAKING OUT!

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• panel.3dm, 670 KB
• 06.populatesurface_ScaleNU RUTH.gh, 182 KB
• 05.PROVA SUPERFICIE.3dm, 103 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 22, 2012 at 3:30am

DON'T PANIC!

Its all to do with your frame of reference for scaling and orienting your torus. You had the origin by default for the first scale component, as your torus is not at the origin, it was moved away from the origin as it got larger(EDIT: that should be towards the origin as it got smaller). Then you used the origin for Input A of the Orient component so where ever your torus ended up it was going to be placed on the surface using the origin as its location hence the objects floating in space.

To rectify this you just need to create a local reference plan at the center of your torus prefereable at the base.

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• 06.populatesurface_ScaleNURUTH_ReferencePlane.gh, 126 KB

Permalink Reply by Ruth on May 22, 2012 at 3:58am

Thanx Danny!

This should work [definitely works with a not much complex surface] but when I try to set a surface or a group of surfaces to the component, I get the 'error' message.

I even tried to work woth my original tspline surface but still, all I see is ORANGE!

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• stamp.jpg, 723 KB

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