Using a modified Railclone obj as a segment in A New Railclone Obj ? Problem.

[cc8boy]

Can I use a modified Railclone 2 object as a segment in A New Railclone 2 Object ? Please help me, iToosoft.
1.   How can I get rid of these isolated vertices without adding an “Edit poly” Modifier ? I can’t get the correct boundingbox via maxscript now. It’s important for my animation. See my screenshot and scene file in my attachments, please.
2.   I just try to use a modified Railclone 2 object as a segment in A New Railclone 2 Object. And I have a problem. See my screenshot and scene file in my attachments, please. I can’t explain too much in English. I hope you can understand me. Please modify my scene.

[Rokas]

Why are You using clipping area? It looks like it should be enough to use two splines.

[cc8boy]

Why are You using clipping area? It looks like it should be enough to use two splines.

Because I will use the clipping area to modify the shape of segments (such as a circle shape) in the future. You know. This is just my test scene , not the real scene in my new project.

PS. Sorry for editing your reply by mistake.

[Rokas]

I probably still don`t understand full situation, but why don`t you maxscript bounding box not of railclone, but clipping path?
and then plug those dimensions to master RailClone:

[cc8boy]

I probably still don`t understand full situation, but why don`t you maxscript bounding box not of railclone, but clipping path?
and then plug those dimensions to master RailClone:

Yeah! It looks like you have no isolated vertice in your first Railclone object which as segment ! Can you upload the scene you modified here, please.

I change the shape of clipping area. But I get this. There're many isolated vertices.

[Rokas]

There are isolated vertices.

[Rokas]

By the way, you can use maxscript to remove those isolated vertices:
$.modifiers[#Edit_Poly].ButtonOp #RemoveIsoVerts

Don`t know if it is suitable for what are you doing, though.

[cc8boy]

Why I must get rid of the  isolated vertices ? Because I will use RailClone object as geometry object in Thinking Particles. I will use object to particles node in Thinking Particles, and do some Physical simulation in Thinking Particles.  I want to make the modifiers that on the Railclone object as few as possible.
Actually, I just want to know whether the  isolated vertices can be removed by Railclone itself.

Thanks for your help.

[iToo]

Problem is caused by the Max boolean function, which we use for the clipping operation. Same issue can be reproduced using Compound Objects->Boolean->Cut.

I guess we can remove the extra vertices in a further step. I've added this to the wishlist.