Bounding Box Script?

[oodini]

Hello,

Do you know any script which creates a bounding box (as a new object) from any object ?

I know it musn't be very difficult, but if it's alredy done...

I made a research, but no result.

Thanks !

[yashu]

get the BBox with xform -q -ws -bb and the obj position with xform -q -ws -t and then
create a cube, position it as the initial obj (xform -t -ws bla bla) and scale it by the bbox.

good luck!

[ewerybody]

you'd need a lotta luck if you assume the center of the boundingbox at xform -q -ws -t :]

you can get everything directly from a transforms attributes: there is:

pCube1.boundingBoxMin // <-- float array
pCube1.boundingBoxMinX
pCube1.boundingBoxMinY
pCube1.boundingBoxMinZ
pCube1.boundingBoxMax // <-- float array
pCube1.boundingBoxMaxX
pCube1.boundingBoxMaxY
pCube1.boundingBoxMaxZ
pCube1.boundingBoxSize // <-- float array
pCube1.boundingBoxSizeX
pCube1.boundingBoxSizeY
pCube1.boundingBoxSizeZ
pCube.center // <-- float array
pCube.boundingBoxCenterX
pCube.boundingBoxCenterY
pCube.boundingBoxCenterZ

everything you need :]

[stu-vaz]

Try this script I wrote, it's controlled by a simple UI and has various options for creating the bounding boxes.

boundBox.mel

Please let me know how you get on with it.

Regards,

Stu

www.stuartvarrall.co.uk

[ewerybody]

nice! deleting the line 260:

CODE
                        -createUVs 4
makes it actually working! :]

[stu-vaz]

What version of Maya are you using? Runs fine on Maya 8 here, but i'll take out that line anyway

Thanks,

Stuart

[kurianos3d]

yea thts correct maya 8 its working fine and thx for sharing this script with us

[ewerybody]

I'm using 7.0

[stu-vaz]

Thanks a lot.

The script has been uploaded to HighEnd here:

Bounding Box Script

I've taken out that errorness line, so it should also work on maya 7 now.

Stuart