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From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
I am confident of the Max scripts! ;)
From: Michael Gibson
Hi silverwoods, there are some settings under Options > Snaps > "Straight snap options" that can get you close to what you want.
If you uncheck "Vertical snapping" that will disable the z direction snap. The Tangent and Perpendicular options are for when the first point is on a curve, those can also be disabled.
Then the remaining x and y snaps are controlled by the "Snap angle" option. By default it is 90 degrees meaning you'll get snaps at each 90 degree increment from the x axis. If it was set to 45 degrees you'll get 8 straight snaps in the x/y plane, etc... You can set it to 0 which will make only the x-axis snap and effectively disable the y axis snap.
So with that you should end up 2 straight snaps happening, surface normal and x axis. Hope that helps you for now.
I'll see about disabling the x-axis snap too when snap angle is set to 0 for the next v4 beta.
- Michael
From: silverwoods
Great, that is a big help, thank you!
From: silverwoods
Another question- Would it be possible to write a script that functions similarly like orient line to line command which places copies of an object oriented to the surface normal at a point without having to pick up the surface normal? I.e., the normal direction is already pre-selected? So that using each click I can select a point on the surface, and the script will repeatedly place a copy of the prong centered at that point and oriented normal to the surface at that point?
From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
Sorry I can't write script myself ! But if Max or other scripts' creators see your request...
From: Michael Gibson
Hi silverwoods, the regular "Orient" command, the one to the left of Line/Line can work like that.
Set the "Make copies" option and then you will be able to place many target points onto a surface, each target point will automatically align to the surface normal and there is a second stage where you can adjust the rotation, but if you do not want to do that you can just right click at that point. So you would just do a left click on the surface and then a right click anywhere in the viewport for each one.
- Michael
From: silverwoods
Oh my... its wonderful! Thank you!
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