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copy node, connect distance with scale

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mickhah
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hello. please look at the image below. how can i set the copy node so that the distance between copies is always the same? not between the centers of copies but between nearest borders. i need the gape to be always like between the first ones at bottom.

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A while since I worked that way, usually have points to copy to. But you can write an expression based on $CY which is the current copy number. ‘Distance+$CY *box size increase’ will get you close.
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thank you for your reply. i got the idea, but cannot find out proper function for that.
you have mentioned, that you don't work that way anymore. may i ask how would you solve this case?
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I would use a ‘copy to points’ and in a wrangler create the points in a for loop.
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I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do…
if you copy to points and scale - each copy will be scaled - in your case smaller than the one before
this means that the distance between the boxes will change

can you do a quick sketch of what you want the final result to look like?
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He wants the distance between the boxes to be fixed. So for each step the step size needs to be increased with half the size of the two boxes on either side.
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mickhah
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yes, i want the distance between each copy to be the same when they are scaled.
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mestela
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A for loop can do this.

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http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/index.php?title=ForLoops [www.tokeru.com]

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