Distance

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
Mesh Output	Mesh	The mesh with the distance attribute added.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
Mesh Input	Mesh	The mesh to measure.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
Attribute Name	String	The name the distances are stored under.
Shape	Enum	What the distance is measured to.Choices: Point, Line, Sphere
Center	Vector 3	Where the shape is. The point itself, a point on the line, or the center of the sphere.
Direction	Vector 3	Which way the line runs. Only used by the Line shape.
Radius	Float	The radius of the sphere. Only used by the Sphere shape.
Shape Transform	Transform 3D	Moves, turns and scales the shape as a whole.

Distance measures how far every vertex is from a shape and stores the result as an attribute, one number per vertex. On its own it changes nothing visible. Fed into Move it makes a bulge or dent that fades out with distance, and through a material it can color a mesh by how close it is to something.

Point gives the straight distance to the center. Line gives the distance to a line through the center in the given direction, with no ends, so it is the same all along the line. Sphere gives the distance to the surface of the sphere. That one is negative inside the sphere and positive outside, so 0 is exactly on the surface.

The shape transform moves the whole shape, and a transform that scales it unevenly turns the sphere into an egg or the point into an oval field. Connect a Transform 3D to it to animate the shape through the mesh.