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how to orient normal in a line closed geometr

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Nicromell
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Hi everyone i tried since a lot of time to orient normal of points perpendicularly to his edge but as you can see on the screens the normals aren't perpendicular

in red you can see what i want to have, it's starting to drive me crazy

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Jikian
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Try this.

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Hi,

Here is one way:

Create tangent vectors using PolyFrame SOP (Style = First Edge), then rotate the vectors around an arbitrary up vector:

matrix3 M = ident ( );
rotate ( M, radians ( -90 ), { 0, 1, 0 } );

@N *= M;

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Jikian
Try this.
animatrix_
Hi,

Here is one way:

Create tangent vectors using PolyFrame SOP (Style = First Edge), then rotate the vectors around an arbitrary up vector:

matrix3 M = ident ( );
rotate ( M, radians ( -90 ), { 0, 1, 0 } );

@N *= M;


Hi thanks you two for your response each way is working good I'm glad !
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