Hello,
I have made a tube with 40 columns and 24 rows as my project involves 40 LED pixels around a circle truss dropping down 24 deep. The problem with this is the points are numbered around the tube not up and down the tube how can I renumber these points to be correct for mapping purposes?
Hi @Joseph1996,
hopefully I understand this correctly: you are looking to have the LEDs going up and down the tube?
First make use of a Copy SOP to copy a Line SOP with 24 points onto a Circle SOP with 40 points.
Next append a Group SOP and on the Create Page enable the “Number” parameter. The “Operation” parameter should be set to Group by Range which will with the default settings create a group made of every second line in your geometry. As a last step append a Transform SOP, select the group you created in the “Group” parameter and finally set the appropriate “Scale” parameter to -1.
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Hope this helps
Markus
I realize you probaly want the LEDs all going into the same direction! For that just remove the Group and Transform SOPs
Cheers
Markus
Yeah if you are talking about the Tube SOP, there’s no built in way to change the point order from that SOP alone, and changing it after the fact with more SOPs will be more complex than the solution Markus provided.
If you got your tube points from somewhere else than the Tube SOP (import from other program or text file) well, it would be possible using some math and a bunch of Group and Sort SOPs (or a Script SOP maybe) - assuming the number of points in each vertical are the same - but it would be hard to account for any edge cases if you are expecting this to be update-able with input geometry / text file changes.
