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Neirao,

Attached is a script to do what you requested.  It will select the points of any edges and/or faces that are selected and de-select the edges and/or faces that were selected.

Edges and Faces are both handled by this single script.  I originally wrote a script for Faces and another script for Edges, then realized that there should not be a conflict having them in the same script.

Enjoy!

How are you determining the xyz coordinates of each object?  Random?

The script and project included above is just a demonstration of the capabilities and to point out the "quirk" of Anim8or of running scripts asynchronously to the rest of the program.

The script above requires a mesh named "s1" of 100 by 100 points.  The points have to be numbered in order of the mesh from 0 to 9999.  The points with Y-coordinates not equal to zero have "excitation", will move up and down, and gradually dampen to zero.  This script only moves the points up-and-down and expects the points to be equal distances away from each other (like a perfect plane)

I've attached a project that has a "blank" water field.  You can try the different kind of rippling, like from the corner, a wave that covers a whole edge, starting the "excitation" above or below the plane, etc.

To render your animation, you have to start the script in object mode, switch quickly to the scene mode and start the render.  The "delay" variable in the script is to allow time for Anim8or to render the frame before the script calculates the next frame.  It takes some experimentation to hone in on a proper delay value for the scene and your computer.  While hunting the proper delay value, set the number of frames variable to just a few frames because you will have to wait for the script to finish to adjust it.

Thank you for your interest.

Thank you for the further clarification of Slide and Pinch.  I think I know enough now to get started.

The only thing that concerns me is the lack of undo if the parameters selected are not what is desired.  Will have to think about that for a bit.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I think this might be possible with scripting, but I cannot determine what you want to do from your explanation and example screenshots.  Can you please be more explicit?

My entry is called "Caught In The Act".  It is my fantasy of actually catching the little buggers.  You know what I am talking about...Little things missing, things rearranged...No real way to explain how only your left socks go missing... Anyway, the entry is supposed to be the instant the light is switched on.

There are five lights in the scene:
2 outside the blinds to simulate the early morning sunshine
1 local light inside the light fixture
1 spot pointing down from the light fixture
1 spot pointing up from the light fixture.

I think this is what you wanted.

Attached is a script that will center selected meshes on an axis determined by a created attribute called 'axis'.  If no 'axis' attribute is created, the script will default to the y-axis.  You can change the default by editing the script.

Additionally, you can center the meshes by their origin point or by the mesh's centroid. (The centroid is the calculated center of the mesh).  The centering method is determined by a created attribute called 'center'.  If no 'center' attribute is created, the script will default to 'origin'.  Again, you can change the default by editing the script.

Please let me know if this works the way you intended or if you can think of any way to improve it.

Theoretically, you could accomplish the same thing as this demo by using a script to precalculate a few dozen morph targets.  You would have to run the script one morph target at a time and end up with a huge an8 file that would take forever to load.