question on LOFT!

Hi guys,

OK, here is the situation, let's say you have bunch of circles, all in one plane, and then you move them all in the Z axis and scale them down, then, you want to loft the original circles with the "scaled down" ones, individually; each circle with one on top of it... it might be silly but i am kinda stuck here! when i try "loft" it lofts every thing together but this is not what i want!

I attached a picture of what i am aiming for

i'd appreciate it if you could help me out with it
thanks alot

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Permalink Reply by Matteo Lo Prete on November 15, 2009 at 1:39am

Hello!
As you'll see in the future, lists treatment is the most critic problem. In your case the problem is that you have two lists of object and you need to explain to GH that it must combine the "n" object of one list together with the "m" object of the second one.
So I put for you two "graft tree" components. You can clearly see what happens. Now GH sees lits items as separated entities into the single list, and compares them one by one with the other list's elements.
Enjoy!

Matteo

Permalink Reply by Nathan Miller on November 15, 2009 at 1:47am

The answer is in setting up the proper data tree.

You need to plug in your original list of circles into the "Graft" component. This will make it so that each circle in the list will have its own tree branch. Do the same to your list of circles that have been moved/scaled.

Then plug in each grafted list into a single "Loft" component.

This should give you the desired result.

Permalink Reply by Omid MK on November 15, 2009 at 4:58pm