Hello. My first effort that is called ‘Spiral Generator Script’ is out. This name sounds exaggerated obviously, I know.
I think my experience of Action Script helped me a lot (or a bit).
This strange script generates a mesh of ‘spiral shaped edge’ without a face.
There are several parameters for spiral’s shape, numbers of vertices, etc. You can make a kind of messed up spiral with ‘khaos’ toggle button on.
Spirals with Wire Material, emit-value is max. This image is a kind of abstract stuff.
Since this spiral is made of a sequence of vertices, so animating particle spiral is effective especially. And with build effect (remember?) is also interesting.
Tip: Of course you can make the generated spiral faced with alt+e then s or alt+s.
Anyway, once you play with this script, you will understand what I’m trying to say, I think.
I guess this script could be better. But I don’t know well about Recursion or something…
Thanks for a comment.
Correct : Press ‘e’ to extrude, not ‘alt+e’.
And here is blend file(169kb) has the script and many spirals. http://runble2.tripod.co.jp/pyscript/spigen.zip
I hope you enjoy.
I have a question.I’m working on ‘tracing spiral script’ with referring to Forked Tongue docs.
Is it possible to make script with happydoc’s API that work in newer versions of Blender?
Hmmm, you wouldn’t happen to be attemping to mimic the fuction of 3DS are you ? This is blenders weakest spot, the extrudion on polyline, with beval, tweek, scalling, pivot and all that other stuff.
No, no. My question is " Is ScriptLink by FrameChanged (in ScriptButtons) useless in new versions of Blender (225,226,227)?”
'Spiraltrace’ script (see above) needs to be linked to your object by ‘FrameChanged’. You can preview the animation that the object, which is linked to the script, is tracing spiral as animation path. The script initializes the parameters when current frame is 1.
I tested this script in 210, 220. It works well as it’s made with old API.
But the second script that coded with new API doesn’t work somehow in 225,226,227.
Or…Had I better wait for next version of Blender Python API?
I was just wondering if there was a way to keep the “objects” equi-distant or maintain a minimum distance between objects?
What I mean is, at the bottom of the spiral, all of the Halos are compressed together and you get a solid blur streak. Is there some way to set a minimum distance between consecutive vertices? I have tried the ‘Remove Doubles’ feature, but it didn’t differentiate between consecutive vertices and the vertices in the next ‘cycle/ coil/ loop’, so it sort of made a mess. (Though, I found it didn’t update the display until I toggled in and out of Edit mode, so it may have worked if I was a little more carefull).
Also, I notice when I generate a spiral, only the first 3 vertices are joined by edges, and they seem to be arranged in a ‘V’ shape. Are all of the vertices suppose to be joined by edges?
http://runble2.tripod.co.jp/pyscript/Spigen1.2.txt
I added “Remake” feature. With this button on, you are able to remake the spiral’s “ME:spiral” datablock.
However,renaming this datablock may be causing Blender crash.
Please use this version at your own risk.
The reason the object wasn’t as noticeable was the lack of the edge, so it did not show up as well in object mode in the older version. It works fine now. The script is very stable and has not caused any problems yet, so good work.
I did not really want to reduce the HaloSize, since at the distance that I have the camera at now, the halo spots are just the size I wanted. Well, I guess I will maybe make 2 spirals, one with less vertices at the beginning and then “join” the 2 together some how.
From: soni bardot
To: Fligh %
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:29 am
Subject: Re: Spirals
Sorry for my slow reply.
Quote:
would it be possible to have your ‘spiral generator’ draw curves instead of mesh? since you can change curves to mesh and use profiles before changing to mesh.
I thought it possible, I did tried to remake, but I couldn’t.
I mean curveAPI is hard to handle to me. maybe no more big update by me. so this script is free to modify.
If it’s possible would someone else be interested in modifying this script to work with curves, preferably surface.
