VertexController question

[janineh]

I've been playing around with the PolygonManager and GenericVertexController to try and determine adjacent polygons in the same plane to a 'selected' polygon.

Looking at the JavaDoc, it seems that the GenericVertexController.getPolygonIDs function should
'Returns the polygon IDs of the polygons that are using the vertex "number".'

However, I don't understand where I would get the 'vertex number' from - just plugging in 0,1,2, random number gets me an array of length 1 with the value of 0 in the array (i.e. a[0]=0).

This doesn't make much sense as my object is a cube, so each polygon vertex should have at least 3 polygons attached to it.

Am I missing something here?

Many thanks,
Janine

[EgonOlsen]

The method has 2 parameters, one for indicating the vertex number (you have to "guess" that number from the number of vertices in the object starting with 0) and the max-id-number, which may be 1 in your case. Try to increase that value and see if the returned array contains more information.

[janineh]

I initially used 4 for the max-id-number as I thought there would be only 2 or 3 polygons with the same vertex.
I've upped it to 20 and I still get the same result.

Here's my code in case it helps:

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int[] polyIDs;
   
SimpleVector[] srcMesh=this.getSourceMesh();
int size=this.getMeshSize();
               
for (int i=0; i<size; i++)
{
     // Get all polygons that share that vertex
     polyIDs = this.getPolygonIDs(0, 20);
   
     for (int j=0; j<polyIDs.length; j++)
     {
          System.out.println("polyID:" + polyIDs[j]);
     }
}



This is what I get printed out:
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0
polyID:0

[EgonOlsen]

Your code has a little flaw, it doesn't use the i, it always uses 0 as the vertex number. However, you are right: That method gives strange results. They are correct in some (more internal) way, but i don't think that this is, what i had in mind when adding it. But i'm not sure and i can't check all my sources ATM to see, if the current way IS the way it was meant to be or not. However, i don't think so and working with the limited resources that i have (i'm not at home and won't be some a few weeks), i've created a "fixed" version, that can be found here: http://www.jpct.net/download/beta/jpctapi116pre4.zip
Please give it a try to see, if the method in this version does what you expect from it and let me know.

[janineh]

That produced better results, thanks.
I'm now getting (from first iteration of the outside loop):
polyID:0
polyID:1
polyID:6
polyID:7
polyID:8

I know about the 0 instead of i, it was a debug measure to try and get it to work! 

Thank you for making the change, especially at this time of year!
Seasons Greetings, and I hope you have a Happy New Year.

Janine