(Wish) Gumball Location, _GumballRelocate with different Options

[Tom_P]

Above the most simple case that annoys me:
select 3 of 6 CVs of the black Hexagon.
Gumball Position is calculated as center of the red Bounding Box.

my wish

_GumballRelocate
should offer different options to calculate the Gumball Location:

• BoundingBox-Center (current default)
• Average of CVs (best for shown case)
  … other approaches
• best fit Plane
• Align to ControlPolygon
• Normal to Surface
• smart (automatically shows the best of above options)
  …
  it would also be great to have the this exposed to Rhinocommon - if it is not already possible.

I think Gumball Location, Gumball Orientation, non rectangular U-V aligned Gumball for Surfaces, saved Gumball Location, …

this would be a great - and relative straight forward - field of enhancements for V9

Thanks

-tom

[Tom_P]

… well one of this topics, I do not understand the dynamics of this forum.
… maybe friday is a bad day to post stuff.

another example where the alignment is not intuitive …

for an planar edge loop - i expect an “orient to Object” Gumball being sensitive for this planarity.
“best fit Plane” in my list above.

@theoutside any thoughts / comments ?

[theoutside (Kyle Houchens)]

imo this still needs some tuning… the object is a bit of an odd shape so the result is not insane, but it would be nice if it could see the planarity.

[Tom_P]

is there a Gumball-Orientation bug (again) ?

or did we get an update, that made it worth ?
(Mac, Intel, Version 8 (8.12.24254.14002, 2024-09-10))

a simple EdgeLoop on a freely orientated subd-Cylinder with Gumball to Object defaults back to World/C-Plane ??

Am I the only one, unhappy with the gumball orientation ?

[Tom_P]

@mikko
may I ask you to have a look at this - you where working on some gumball alignment / orientation issues

Thanks

[BrianJ (Brian James)]

Hi @Tom_P ,

I’ve added this thread to https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-86215 as more feedback related to alignment wishes. Thanks.