[Script] Draw ellipses on the dynamic lighting layer

Hey everyone- I made a simple script that allows me to draw circles on the dynamic lighting layer and automatically convert them to a polygonal representation of the ellipse. This is designed to address the issue with dynamic lighting without requiring you to manually trace a circle using line segments. Great for making forest maps, columns, etc! To use, just enable the script and draw circles on the dynamic lighting layer- it defaults to generating 20-sided polygons, but you can adjust this by typing "!treehugger &lt;desired # of sides&gt;". E.g., for a 10-sided approximation of circles instead, just type "!treehugger 10" and any new circles will be converted to 10-sided polygons.&nbsp; Hope you all like it, and let me know if you have any questions! <a href="https://gist.github.com/tmatchen/ddc83483f818910c8f91b59f45e2c854" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/tmatchen/ddc83483f818910c8f91b59f45e2c854</a>

Nice!

Sounds handy. Does it handle ellipses that are rotated or scaled?

Very cool, thank you Timothy!

This is so great -- thanks! I didn't realize how much I like incorporating round things until I had this!

Currently, it does not handle rotate or scaled ellipses since it's designed to work on draw- it should be an easy thing to fix though as it'll just mean pulling those values from the original ellipse. I'll try it out and make sure there's no wonkiness and post back!

Update: tweaked slightly so it handles ellipses that are scaled. It turns out there's no good way to handle rotated ellipses the way it's set up now; this is because rotations don't work on the DL layer (and any objects placed on the DL layer, regardless of their appearance visually, have their rotation set to "0"). To get it to work with rotations would require a major overhaul, unfortunately.