Converting Polygons Into Objects

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On 19/11/2007 at 05:49, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hello,

I´m a totally new to COFFEE, but I´d like to create a script doing the following:

1. Call an object
2. Get the polygons from 1.
3. Convert each polygon into an individual object

I thought, something like this would do the job:

> _var object = doc- >FindObject("Cube");
> var currentDoc = GetActiveDocument();
>
> var NoOfPolygons = object->GetPolygonCount();
> var i = 0;
>
> while (i <= NoOfPolygons) {
>
>      var singlePolygon = object->GetPolygon(i);
>
>      var newPolygon = new(PolygonObject);
>          newPolygon->SetPolygon(singlePolygon);
>
>       currentDoc->InsertObject(newPolygon, NULL, NULL);
>      
>      i++;
> }
>
> _

The polygon objects are created, but they don´t contain any points or position data. Currently I just don´t know what do, because the entire COFFEE construction is a bit confusing for me...

Thanks a lot in advance for your help and hints.

Best,
t.

P.S.: I´m on C4D 9.6

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On 19/11/2007 at 07:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

The object has to be a Polygon object first. If it's not, it doesn't have any *real* polygons to get. Convert it first (SendModelingCommand() with CurrentStateToObject).

if (object->GetType() != Opolygon) // convert
// then continue

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On 19/11/2007 at 07:41, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello Robert,

thanks for your message. The cube has been made editable (converted into polygons) before executing the script - so the object already consists of polygons. Also the expression

> println(singlePolygon);

displays a result, e.g. [Object - 0x0fg5ffe]. That´s why I thought I´d be able to simply transfer the data to a new polygon.

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On 19/11/2007 at 10:19, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Okay, that's out of the way. :)

First, SetPolygon() takes two paramters: SetPolygon(num, p).

Second, you'll need to get and set the points as well (see PointObject from which PolygonObject is derived). Polygons don't store the points, they only store indices into the point array.

Third, you'll need to specify the point and polygon counts for the new polygon object. This example is from the archived forum:

> NewPolygonObject(pointCount, polygonCount)
> {
> if (pointCount < 0 || polygonCount < 0) return FALSE;
>
> var newObject = new(PolygonObject);
>
> var pointArray = new(array, pointCount);
> var polygonArray = new(array, polygonCount * 4);
>
> // Modify the arrays here if you want!
>
> newObject->SetPoints(pointArray);
> newObject->SetPolygons(polygonArray);
>
> var variableChanged = new(VariableChanged);
> var backupTags = new(BackupTags);
>
> backupTags->Init(newObject);
> variableChanged->Init(0, pointCount);
> if (!newObject->Message(MSG_POINTS_CHANGED, variableChanged))
> {
>     backupTags->Restore();
>     return FALSE;
> }
>
> backupTags->Init(newObject);
> variableChanged->Init(0, polygonCount);
> if (!newObject->Message(MSG_POLYGONS_CHANGED, variableChanged))
> {
>     backupTags->Restore();
>     return FALSE;
> }
>
> newObject->Message(MSG_UPDATE);
> return newObject;
> }

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On 19/11/2007 at 14:49, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Robert -

thank you so much for your friendly help. I´ll give a go tomorrow...

Best,
t.

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On 20/11/2007 at 03:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for your help so far, but I just can´t get along with coffee´s construction methods. I´m able to read out the coordinates of a vertex, but I have no clue how to transform these values into a new polygon object.

> var object = doc- >FindObject("Cube");
> var currentDoc = GetActiveDocument();
>
> var polys = object->GetPolygons();
> var points = object->GetPoints();
> var polynum = object->GetPolygonCount() * 4;
> var counter = 0;
> var i,vertexRef, pointCoord;
>
> for (i=0; i<polynum; i++) {
>
>      if (counter == 0) {
>           println ("Polygon #", i/4);
>           println ("------------------------");
>      }
>
>      vertexRef = polys[i];
>      pointCoord = points[vertexRef];
>
>      println (pointCoord);
>
>      counter++;
>
>      if (counter == 4) {
>           counter = 0;
>      }
>
> }

I really appreciate your help!

Thanks,
t.

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On 20/11/2007 at 06:24, xxxxxxxx wrote:

As is shown in the example code, you have to create two new arrays for the new Polyon object (point and polygon arrays) and set them on the Polygon object.

As for setting up the polygon and points, since you are only creating one polygon with, at most, four points the indices for the four points will be 0,1,2,3 for a quadrangle and 0,1,2,2 for a triangle. Doesn't matter what these indices are in the old polygon object since you are only creating one polygon and one three/four point array.

So, you'll set the points as:

> var pointArray;
>
> // inside polygon traversal loop
> // - Quadrangle
> if (polys[p].c != polys[p].d)
> {
> pointArray = new(array, 4);
> pointArray[0] = points[polys[p].a];
> pointArray[1] = points[polys[p].b];
> pointArray[2] = points[polys[p].c];
> pointArray[3] = points[polys[p].d];
> }
> // - Triangle
> else
> {
> pointArray = new(array, 3);
> pointArray[0] = points[polys[p].a];
> pointArray[1] = points[polys[p].b];
> pointArray[2] = points[polys[p].c];
> }
> object- >SetPoints(pointArray);

When you are setting the polygon vertex indices, if it's a triangle, set polyArray[n].d = polyArray[n].c. I'm not so sure why the old code there allocates polyCount*4 instead of just polyCount Polygons as I'm not a COFFEE coder as much as a CPP coder. Being new at this, you should consider Rui Batista s COFFEE book. He is very knowledgeable with COFFEE.