180 S-Shape based Ornamental Wrought Iron Patterns ( maps )

mCasual

 

the download and instruction pages

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts6/mcjs_shapes_typea

and if you just want the zip and dont want no instructions!!!

direct link to the 16MB Zip 

 

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Introduction

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I created some S Shaped animation paths using the Daz Script script shown below

 

then i used mcjTransport to create tubes that follow those paths

 

then i rendered them as 180 800x800 pixels PNGs

 

and that's what you get here !

 

mCasual

Warning : for nerd eyes only

Here is the script i used to create the animated paths that were 
then used by mcjTransport to create the tubes ( morphs actually )
The line that reads "var step = 34 .... " is what sets the animation pattern
i used values 0 to 180 but there's probably interesting shapes to find using fractions

As you can see, it's the object ( usually a null node ) named Spline that will be animated

so you need something labeled Spline in your scene

The animation path duration is set to 720 frames

each tube section is 1 cm long

var tick = Scene.getTimeStep();var node = Scene.findNodeByLabel( "Spline" );var pi = Math.PI;var step = 34 * pi / 180; //<< try 32 degreesvar p = node.getWSPos( 0 );var r = node.getWSRot( 0 );var a = 0var Y = DzVec3( 0, 1, 0 );var rerot = Y.getRotationTo( DzVec3( Math.sin(a), Math.cos(a), 0 ) )for( var fr = 0; fr <= 720; fr++ ){t = fr * tick;node.setWSPos( t, p );r = r.multiply( rerot )p = p.add( r.getYAxis() )a = a + step;rerot = Y.getRotationTo( DzVec3( Math.sin(a), Math.cos(a), 0 ) )}