Hey, are you speaking about windows... no, that dumps all the files with very
obscure filenames in one big DIRECTORY, so that can't be it... hmm, Linux? Well,
I must say that all the filenames are very describing, but where are they when
the newbie needs them? (hehe) Well........ I can say, i've learned how to use
the search functions now :-)



bankspad wrote:
> 
> I need to step in and back-up Ken here. What brought me to this group to begin with
was
> this very thing - exrusions and splines - several months later I get the answer I'm
looking
> for ( not the default "get a modeler like moray or spatch" ) , however it is tossed
rather
> casually into a message buried in a thread that know one in 2 weeks time will
remeber that
> it is even here. This I stumbled upon quite by accident  - but I wonder how many
thousands
> that may look and lurk here between now and forever will not benefit from other's
hard work
> and discoveries if that data is not stored in the places that claim to have that
data
> stored there - imagine your O/S putting files wherever it felt like and suddenly you
need
> to find a file somewhere under some drive in some folder or sub-folder or sub-sub
folder on
> your 8+ gig hard drive.    ;-]
> 
> KB-
> 
> Ken wrote:
> 
> > Gilles Tran wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the reference Ken, but my spline macro may be overkill for that.
Also, the
> > > macro doesn't modify the size of the extruded shape (no pointy end), and splines
with
> > > that kind of perfect mathematical shape are hard to figure out. Perhaps a little
> > > "connect-the-dot" macro would do (not putting this in scenes-files because it's
> > > really too small).  It's not perfect but you get the idea.
> > > Gilles
> >
> >  I somehow had the impression that your macro could change shape as it
> > progressed along it's path. From what you say I now get the impression
> > that this is not so. Sorry for my lack of understanding and I will give
> > your macro more study so as to acertain it's true functionality before
> > again refering it to others for a given task.
> >
> >  Regarding as to whether the code should have been placed in this group
> > or the scene files group that is where I am forced to disagree. To you
> > it may seem like a trivial piece of Pov script but to others it may seem
> > like magic. Many learn by example but where that example is hidden or
> > obscured there is no knowlege to be gained. What is gained from writing
> > a book but refusing to publish it ? What good is a book of beginnings
> > with no one to admire it ?
> >
> >  Who will be able to find it here in three months time ?
> >  Who will be able to find it in the scene-files group in three months time ?
> >
> >  I think that answer to both questions is obvious.
> >  No one and everyone respectively with no disrespect intended.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Tyler
> >
> > mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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