planar quad panels

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on August 23, 2011 at 5:35am

Hi Ran,

 

Your setup looks okay, but you need to include some other forces as well as planarization.

For example some laplacian smoothing, or making the edges springs, or making the vertices AnchorSprings.

 

Permalink Reply by Ran Berman on August 23, 2011 at 5:45am

Thank you Daniel,

I will try that

 

Cheers :)

Permalink Reply by Ran Berman on August 23, 2011 at 7:18am

Hi Daniel and everybody else,

I've tried to use the sripngs and laplacian smoothing but still as you can see in the image that I've attached the surfaces are not planar :(

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks :)  

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Permalink Reply by Ran Berman on August 28, 2011 at 4:42am

Figured it out!!!

Now it works like a charm :)

Permalink Reply by Rex T on August 30, 2011 at 2:32pm

may l ask what was the final adjustments of your solution that makes panalization worked?
thanks! 

Permalink Reply by Ran Berman on September 3, 2011 at 11:59pm

Hi Rex,

Sorry for the late replay, but this is basically what I've done (not that much):

the only thing that I've changed was to twick the numbers a bit and it worked, it toke some time but I finally got it.

I can only say one thing: you need to find the correct balance between the numbers, to much and the geometry will go crazy to little and it wont do the job or only part of the geometry will transform.