How to scale individual polygons of a mesh?

[iatriki]

I'm an ICE noob and so far I learned how to scale the entire mesh by using ICE, but I don't know how to scale individual(or only some polys) of a mesh.
Is there some documentation about this? or does anyone have time to explain?

[Hirazi Blue]

I am not quite sure what you're trying to achieve and I might just misunderstand your question, but I would guess the best way to scale a polygon of a mesh would be to move it adjacent points around...
;)

[iatriki]

I made this setup( in the image). I made a cluster with the points I wanna scale, but with my setup the points move along their vectors. I just wanna move them towards eachother in the XZ plane.


EDIT: I replaced the ResizeVector with an ADD node and I can now move the cluster in the desired axis. Is there another way to move individual points, besides moving the cluster that contains them? Is there a way to move points perpendicular to a polygon's normal?

[Chris_TC]

The resize vector won't do what you want, because the point position vectors are drawn from the scene origin. So the tree will scale your polygon, but will use the scene origin as the pivot. Display the vectors to see exactly what's happening.

What you want to do is draw a vector from the polygon center to each of its points. Then resize that vector and add the result to the point positions.
Example tree and compound below.

[iatriki]

Thank you for your answer!