Mel Script Volume

[daanbanaan]

Hello,

Can anybody tell me how to let maya calculate the percentage of objects that's standing in a 3d model? So i mean the percentage of the total volume that it takes.

Thanks very much

[ewerybody]

QUOTE(daanbanaan @ 10/27/05, 01:28 AM)
...percentage of objects that's standing in a 3d model? So i mean the percentage of the total volume that it takes...[snapback]218269[/snapback]

What the heck do you mean? You can calculate the volume of a polyObject with computePolysetVolume. But what do you mean with percentage? percentages always have a relation to something. If you want special volumes try to bool, account the volumes and then create the percentage.

you need something thats 100% and a value: eg:

"100%" = 0.45767
"value" = 0.24674
"value" / "100%":
"value" is 0.53912 of "100%"
* 100:
"value" is 53.9% of "100%"

ehm.. hope that helps

[joojaa]

LOL

hey i get it... hes making bottles and wants maya to tell him how much alcohol they contain, so maya would have some heurestics on whether its a vodka bottle or a beer bottle

No offense justa funny observation.

[daanbanaan]

Thanks for the reactions,

I'm interested in the following:

I've got a 3d model of an appartment. I've put all the furniture and loose stuff in it.
I'm interested in what's the precentage of the furniture of the total space. And what's the percentage of the total other stuff related to the total space.

I'm just wondering if you can calculate like that with maya.

Thanks again.

[joojaa]

yes select the room! Only works on polyys convert nurbs into polys later, make sure your normals make sense

then run

computePolysetVolume

take up the number

select the objecsts in the room and run

computePolysetVolume

calculate seconValue/firstValue

Now inorder to automate this totaly youd need to modify the computePolysetVolume script a bit! to return numbers

Note if the room is inverted so thet the faces are inwards! then maya will compute a negative volume no prob just forget the negative sign

If your walls have thikness then maya will produce the volume of the walls! not the room so you should prepare a object thatt describes to room not walls.

Works atleast in maya 7 6.5 and 6 might work on older mayas too