hi guys
have attached an example of what i am trying to accomplish, basically i have created a dynamic wall (i have simplified the wall in the attached project by removing the staggering), i want to copy the wall to the four sides of a circle primitive (currently set to 4 sided but i used a circle so that i could have as many sides as required), however when i copy to the circle i have two issues:-
- how do i rotate the wall so that it is facing the right way
or is it rotate the normals and then the wall face the right way
- how do i center the wall to the side of the circle, rather than the corner
the object is to have a four walled house, but with the option to increase the number of walls dynamically,
your thoughts please, all help appreciated
copy to side of a poly, issues with 3/5 sides [SOLVED]
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thanks for spending the time on this joker, neat solution, very minimal, especially like the way you have reduced
the double copy sop to a line stacked
to
single copy to grid
i had it that way so that i could stagger the bricks in the wall,
again thanks for getting back as i was pretty much stuck on how to get the walls to face the right way round
keep it real
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hi joker,
i have applied your much simpler wall method, setup the stagger, works perfectly but ONLY if the building has 4 sides, if i change the sides to 3, 5,6 etc then the sides dont join together, they overlap, see attached.
I appreciate that this is a math problem, but am not sure what the formula would be, could you have a look? all help appreciated
the double copy sop to a line stacked
to
single copy to grid
i had it that way so that i could stagger the bricks in the wall,
again thanks for getting back as i was pretty much stuck on how to get the walls to face the right way round
keep it real
r;0)b
hi joker,
i have applied your much simpler wall method, setup the stagger, works perfectly but ONLY if the building has 4 sides, if i change the sides to 3, 5,6 etc then the sides dont join together, they overlap, see attached.
I appreciate that this is a math problem, but am not sure what the formula would be, could you have a look? all help appreciated
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well have done some digging into polygon circle math and NEARLY fixed this by setting:
- shift_wall_right_by_half_brick_width/sizex = ch(“../wall/cols”)/(2*tan(180/ch(“divs”)))
- room_sides/radx & y = ch(“../wall/cols”)/(2*tan(180/ch(“divs”)))
as per this formula at http://www.mathopenref.com/polygonincircle.html [mathopenref.com]
thanks to all for looking
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after more testing i can see that this works ONLY if the bricks have no depth, the more z added the more wrong it looks
- shift_wall_right_by_half_brick_width/sizex = ch(“../wall/cols”)/(2*tan(180/ch(“divs”)))
- room_sides/radx & y = ch(“../wall/cols”)/(2*tan(180/ch(“divs”)))
as per this formula at http://www.mathopenref.com/polygonincircle.html [mathopenref.com]
thanks to all for looking
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after more testing i can see that this works ONLY if the bricks have no depth, the more z added the more wrong it looks
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