Substep Matrix

Finding middle points is easy, but what if you want to find a bunch of midpoints or evenly space out objects between two points. This little proc will generate a matrix of positions that are evenly spaced between two nodes.

global proc matrix jsGenerateSubStepMatrix(string $obj1, string $obj2, int $divisions) {
        string $objs[] = {$obj1, $obj2};
        matrix $subStepPos[20][3];
        
        float $position1[] = `xform -q -ws -t $objs[0]`;
        float $position2[] = `xform -q -ws -t $objs[1]`;                
        float $divideVec[];
        $divideVec[0] = ($position2[0] - $position1[0]) / ($divisions - 1);
        $divideVec[1] = ($position2[1] - $position1[1]) / ($divisions - 1);
        $divideVec[2] = ($position2[2] - $position1[2]) / ($divisions - 1);             
        for ($i=0; $i<$divisions; $i++) {
                $subStepPos[$i][0] = $position1[0] + ($divideVec[0] * $i);
                $subStepPos[$i][1] = $position1[1] + ($divideVec[1] * $i);
                $subStepPos[$i][2] = $position1[2] + ($divideVec[2] * $i);              
        }
        return $subStepPos;
}