[deadalvs]

yo.

i get an error with MEL...

when i want to query all normals of a mesh, i use:

string $pi[] = `polyInfo -fn $eachFace`;
-->

//Result: FACE_NORMAL 5: -1.000 0.000 0.000

even though the object has been rotated.
it seems the normal is given out in local space, not world space... what could i do ??

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thx.

[deadalvs]

the solution from cg-talk ...

//create a test plane
$plane = `polyPlane -ax 0 1 0`;
setAttr ($plane[0]+".rz") -90;

string $pi[] = `polyInfo -fn ($plane[0]+".f[0]")`;
string $buf[];
$numTokens = `tokenize $pi[0] " " $buf`;

//cast string to float
float $normal[];
$normal[0] = $buf[2];
$normal[1] = $buf[3];
$normal[2] = $buf[4];

$m = `xform -q -ws -m $plane[0]`;
float $worldspaceVec[] = pointMatrixMult($normal, $m);

normalize($worldspaceVec);
print ($worldspaceVec);