Hi, I just created a definition for a cone that follows a polyline. It works fine but when I put it inside a cluster, the output is different than what is inside the cluster.
In the first image, I am inside the cluster and the surfaces are clean and smooth, but in the second image, once I close the cluster, some of the surfaces are skewed). Anyone has any idea why that might happen? It has happened to me again once or twice in other clusters.
*needs anemone
Most likely because the last time I checked, Anemone doesnāt run inside of a cluster?
Are you referring to the twisted sections on the right, baked from outside the cluster, vs. the straight sections on the left, baked inside the cluster?
By the way, using a plugin only for the āX Minues Oneā feature is unfortunate and unnecessary:
āx-1ā can easily be done with an expression, no need for a plugin:
so essentially, I canāt have anemone inside a cluster, I have to explode it. right?
Or do it without Anemone. I understand what youāre doing but the code looks excessively complex.
ok, thanks!
I am sure I could simplify the code if I put the time. To quote Pascal:
āIf I had more time, I would have written a shorter letterā
Yeah, thatās one of my favorite quotes.
I spent too much time brutally hacking away at your code, trying to do it without Anemone before understanding what that loop was doing. Some things are simpler and ābetterā (to my eyes), some of your code was left in place. The result isnāt terrible but could be better with seam alignment, as you did.
Iām going to quit for now, sleep on it and maybe get back to it later. Your code is pretty cool, if only Anemone worked inside of clustersā¦
KinkyCone_2022Oct14a.gh (35.2 KB)
hahaha, nice to see a fellow mazochist torture himself just for the fun of it! 
Iāll have a look at your code.
This works well? Instead of lofting your āmassagedā intersection curves, I used them to split the cones.
Full Size GIF
Later - OH NO! I canāt believe I did this. I spent considerable time cleaning up the file as shown in the screen image but apparently didnāt save it. 
Will try to do it againā¦
UPDATE: Re-did the cleanup, hereās the correct file (I hope). Donāt know how that happenedā¦
KinkyCone_2022Oct15aa.gh (24.8 KB)
P.S. Unfortunately, due to internal flattening, this fails to handle multiple Start/End radii. If it did, it would be easy to add thickness to this kinky cone by creating two on the same guide curve. Oh well.
