"Flatten Splines"

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On 01/04/2010 at 11:44, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello all...my first post here.  The forum looks like a terrific resource.  I'm looking forward to following along.

The reason I've landed here today is because of my quest to script something that seems so simple, but I can't figure it out on my own.  I'd call my programming knowledge "intermediate".  I suspect it is simple because it is literally one-click on a single spline object.  But, in my current project, I have hundreds of splines I need to "flatten" in the y-axis (i.e., the XZ plane).

Of course, the way to do this in the GUI is to simply set the spline object's Y SIZE to zero in the coordinate manager and apply.  This essentially averages the Y coordinates for all the spline's points and forces the spline's points to lie within the XZ plane.

It would be a great time saver for me to be able to select numerous spline objects in the object manager and execute a script to "flatten" them all to the XZ plane.

What do you guys think?  Maybe I'm missing some obscure function that does this already?

Thanks

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On 13/12/2010 at 12:01, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Maybe a bit late, but i wrote a script for you. Maybe you have another case for using it.

var obj = doc->GetActiveObject();
  if (!obj) {
      TextDialog("Select an object.", DLG_OK);
      return false;
  }
var i = 1;

while (obj) {

obj#ID_BASEOBJECT_SCALE:VECTOR_Y = 0;
  println(obj->GetName() + " is flat.");

obj = obj->GetNext();
      if (!obj) {
          TextDialog((tostring(i) + " Object/s flattened."), DLG_OK);
          return false;
      }
  i++;
}

Greets, nux

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On 21/12/2010 at 05:01, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Thank you, nux.  Works great.

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On 01/07/2011 at 13:37, xxxxxxxx wrote:

hey, this is not a code related solution, but using the melt deferrer, settings its strength to zero, and moving to the top of your splines should flatten them in the local Y direction of your deformer. obviously not a coded solution, but still very useful nonetheless.