We have plug-in commands to tell us the XYZ location and size of objects, however we are missing a command to tell us the XYZ offset relationship between the location origin to the size data.

I was going to write some code to auto set the height of things to the profile map (especially all my trees.....), but without knowing where each objects origin is, I can't do that.

I am sure there are other uses too.

regards

T

While on that topic...  a command to pull the contour maps would be helpful too

 

Bearbeitet 12. Dezember 20169 J von trevor

Hi trevor,

Zitat

vor 38 Minuten schrieb trevor:

a command to pull the contour maps would be helpful too

... there is a undocumented command 132

It is like an echolot and returns the coordinates (surface) and the name of the hit object...
(... if you got problems with translation... feel free to ask...)
... i used it to place objects on the contour of "Bodenplatte" in my plugin "Landschaftsgestaltung"

EASY

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5 minutes ago, EASY said:

Hi trevor,

... there is a undocumented command 132

It is like an echolot and returns the coordinates (surface) and the name of the hit object...
(... if you got problems with translation... feel free to ask...)
... i used it to place objects on the contour of "Bodenplatte" in my plugin "Landschaftsgestaltung"

EASY

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Hmm  interesting.... I'd still need the offset thing though to know where I am starting from....

Though looking at it again... maybe I could do it in two steps... Shoot a beam down to find the surface, then shoot one back up from that point to find the bottom of the initial object?

Good to know though.... I had an idea for a free fly helicopter plug-in but could not figure out how to avoid going below deck... this command would facilitate that  

 

Also.. any idea how that responds if Z is already less than the contour level? I'm guessing you need to ask for both -1 and +1 if the first one fails...

 

Bearbeitet 12. Dezember 20169 J von trevor

Hi trevor,

Zitat

vor 11 Stunden schrieb trevor:

Also.. any idea how that responds if Z is already less than the contour level? I'm guessing you need to ask for both -1 and +1 if the first one fails...

Note: if "Bodenplatte" got a thikness and you send the "ping" within this thikness z=-1 and z=+1 both will get a result... 

... i take the z position of "Bodenplatte" + size (in z) of "Bodenplatte" = the highest point + an offset (i.e. 500 ->  more then highest objekt)...
... so i can always send z=-1...

EASY

2 hours ago, EASY said:

Hi trevor,

Note: if "Bodenplatte" got a thikness and you send the "ping" within this thikness z=-1 and z=+1 both will get a result... 

... i take the z position of "Bodenplatte" + size (in z) of "Bodenplatte" = the highest point + an offset (i.e. 500 ->  more then highest objekt)...
... so i can always send z=-1...

EASY

ah cool.... I hope u modified that plug in since NEO made the "Bodenplatte" name editable

Hi trevor,

Zitat

vor 4 Stunden schrieb trevor:

I hope u modified that plug in since NEO made the "Bodenplatte" name editable

...... i think the name "Bodenplatte" could always be edited ...

... i'm looking for typ "Bodenplatte" ... if there is more then one... (...and will be  renamed to make name unique..)

Gruß
EASY

2 hours ago, EASY said:

i think the name "Bodenplatte" could always be edited ...

Neo changed that in the last Beta release..

 

Hi trevor,

... to avoid misunderstanding... since version 3.1.2.0 name of the default layer can be edited... (main menu -> View -> Layers)

EASY

17 hours ago, EASY said:

to avoid misunderstanding... since version 3.1.2.0 name of the default layer can be edited... (main menu -> View -> Layers)

Um.. sorry, no. You can change the panel name now too.
 

Mind you, it's kind of mute, it's probably best to give the user a list of which panels are available to align to anyway...