Procedurally set bend capture region?

[bentway23]

Would there be a way to procedurally set the capture region for a bend deformer, for instance if you're using it in a for loop for the same object but with different sizes/rotations? I guess the main question would be figuring out its angle, as bounding box and centroid expressions could do most of the placing and sizing (except if the object was rotated the bounding box size wouldn't be accurate).

[anim]

you can use Bounds SOP and check Oriented Bounding Box and Transform Attribute

that will give you detail matrix attribute 'xform' which will contain all the data you need

[takenotes]

The easiest way to do it is set a loop to iterate over pieces and then inside the loop write the relevant attributes (bounds, direction, bend angle) to detail attributes. Then you can reference them inside the bend node with the detail(input, attrib, component) expression. Then delete the attributes at the end of the iteration.

[takenotes]

50 minutes ago, takenotes said:

The easiest way to do it is set a loop to iterate over pieces and then inside the loop write the relevant attributes (bounds, direction, bend angle) to detail attributes. Then you can reference them inside the bend node with the detail(input, attrib, component) expression. Then delete the attributes at the end of the iteration.

Sorry, I didn’t see it was already solved