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[apollo11]

I have normals following each other. The distance between two points is kept in the @perimeter attribute. I want @N to unfollow when @Perimeter crosses the distance I set.

I did a setup but it doesn't work properly @N direction keeps changing.

Scene file:   N_direction.hiplc

 

Edited October 7, 2022 by apollo11

[Librarian]

Take perimeter or Vertex beetwen only 2 points of that Line and promote to Gradient middle, or same Chess tex, make to class and random threshold with constant anime B spline, or some Nice Spline to chops and Back.  or use This Shortcut 'Ex'  With Vellum( Don't know About Vellum ..Nada...) . just onooo...Maybe it Helps !!

set_emi.hipnc

[Mazl]

I can´t look at your file right now. but from the pic, it looks like you forgot to set your curly brackets { } for your if statement

[Benyee]

On 2022/10/7 at 10:56 PM, apollo11 said:

I want @N to unfollow when @Perimeter crosses the distance I set.

you should update normal for each point after reaching 2.8 length,I used some simple matrixes to do that

hope it helps

N_direction_v2.hiplc

[apollo11]

  @Benyee It works, thank you, I learned new things thanks to you.  

Finally, I was planning to restrict the angle of the normal to prevent it from entering the geometry, but I thought it was not so important.

Edited October 8, 2022 by apollo11

[Fenolis]

On 10/8/2022 at 5:04 AM, Mazl said:

I can´t look at your file right now. but from the pic, it looks like you forgot to set your curly brackets { } for your if statement

@Mazl for single lined "if" statements, curly brackets are not necessary.