{"id":879,"date":"2009-03-21T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2010-06-23T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T04:30:48","slug":"insert-mono-spaced-vertices-in-edges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/879\/3d-tutorials\/insert-mono-spaced-vertices-in-edges","title":{"rendered":"Insert Mono-Spaced Vertices in Edges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3497\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/MonoSpacedVertInsert.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[879]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3497\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/MonoSpacedVertInsert-176x300.jpg\" alt=\"Example\" title=\"Inserting Mono-Spaced Vertices\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/MonoSpacedVertInsert-176x300.jpg 176w, http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/MonoSpacedVertInsert.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inserting Mono-Spaced Vertices in a Mesh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is going to be a very quick post, but I wanted to talk about a script request I got on the <a title=\"3dTotal Forums\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.3dtotal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Threedy Forums.<\/a> There was a user who wanted to be able to easily insert a lot of vertices into edges into his 3dsMax objects.\u00a0 From a scripting standpoint, this is very difficult because the insertVertexInEdge function inserts only one vert at a time.\u00a0 Thus, you&#8217;re disrupting the edge IDs every time you insert a vertex, and it would take all day to script this kind of tool.<\/p>\n<p>The workaround I proposed was to use the &#8220;Connect&#8221; tool (Modify panel&gt;&gt;&#8221;Edit Edges&#8221; rollout) to connect all the edges you want together.\u00a0 Then you can just use the &#8220;Remove&#8221; tool (Modify panel&gt;&gt;&#8221;Edit Edges&#8221; rollout) to get rid of the resultant edges and you&#8217;ll be left with just the vertices.<\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t say I understand why this user would want only the vertices and not the edges.\u00a0 Then again, I&#8217;m the &#8220;supplies coordinator&#8221; for the Dominance war effort, so I just do the best I can to provide what they ask for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post shows you how to create equally spaced vertices along many edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[215,2566,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}