Cast

The Cast modifier shifts the shape of a mesh towards a predefined shape (sphere, cylinder, prism, UV Sphere).

Mimics and expands the Blender Cast Modifier (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/deform/cast.html).

The node accepts regular Python lists and Numpy Arrays. (Flat Arrays for scalars and two-axis arrays for vectors).

Inputs & Parameters

Parameters	Description
Shape	Sphere, Cylinder, Prism, UV Sphere
Origin	Determine where the origin of the shape should be: Average: The center of the mesh will be in the mean of the inputted vertices External: The center of the mesh will be taken from the origin input
Size	Determine where the origin of the shape should be: Average: The size of the mesh will be in the mean of the inputted vertices External: The size of the mesh will be taken from the size input

Inputs	Description
Vertices	Vertices of the mesh to cast
Shape Scale	Axis scaling of the base mesh
Effect Scale	Axis scaling of the displacement vector
Origin	Origin of the base mesh
Size	Base size of the base mesh
Strength	Scalar scaling of the displacement vector
Meridians	Horizontal divisions. If less than 2 it will be interpreted as circular
Parallels	Vertical divisions. If less than 1 it will be interpreted as circular

Advanced Parameters

In the N-Panel (and on the right-click menu) you can find:

Output NumPy: Output NumPy arrays in stead of regular lists (makes the node faster)

List Match: Define how list with different lengths should be matched

Examples

Basic example

• Generator-> Box

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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Cast a box to a octahedron:

• Generator-> Box

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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Cast a UV Sphere to a pentagonal prism:

• Generator-> Sphere

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

• Matrix-> Matrix In

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Casting Suzzane to different height prisms

• Generator-> Line

• Generator-> Suzanne

• Number-> Number Range

• Vector-> Vector In

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• List->List Struct-> List Split

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

• Text-> Stethoscope

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Casting a plane to a scaled sphere using external origin

• Generator-> Plane

• Vector-> Vector In

• Viz-> Matrix View

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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Multiple concatenation of casts

• Generator-> Plane

• Vector-> Vector In

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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All parameters are vectorized. In this example multiple origins are passed to the same shape

• Generator-> Circle

• Generator-> Plane

• Analyzers-> KDT Closest Verts

• ADD: Vector-> Vector Math

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• List->List Main-> List Join

• Viz-> Viewer Draw

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To get a tetrahedron Meridians:3 Parallels: 1.5 Shape scale: (1.08888, 1.08888, 0.8889)

• Generator-> Box

• Vector-> Vector In

• Vector-> Vector In

• Matrix-> Matrix In

• Viz-> Viewer Draw