OK, you can't clean the curves, by hand or otherwise, without changing the
curve shape. In the end, the solution was to script a conversion of the
curves to linear, many-pointed curves and use those.
. It's not that it works badly, it simply doesn't work at all. It wouldn't
be so bad, but it's never worked, not even in SI|3D, not in the 20 years
I've been using Softimage products. Jeez, what a mess.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Frank Lenhard
> Sent: 31 July 2007 08:42
> To: Kim Aldis
> Subject: Re: fixing up imported EPS curves for deform along curve
>
> i found only one way to do this and its in max.
> curves are working much better there and import muh cleaner. then you
> bring them into xsi via dotxsi and be happy.
>
> ciao
> franky
>
>
> Monday, July 30, 2007, 7:25:23 PM, you wrote:
>
> KA> God bless XSI's extrude tools. Damn, what a mess.
>
> KA> I've a bunch of imported curves, come in via eps from Illustrator.
> They look
> KA> just fine until you start deforming meshes along them; the meshes
> just twist
> KA> up all over the place as they animate along the curve. If I take
> the
> KA> coincident points out then the twists go away. The problem is,
> though, I've
> KA> about a hundred of these things and, to be frank, the selection
> tools aren't
> KA> up to handling multiple points in any kind of sensible way. So,
> does anyone
> KA> know of any curve cleanup tools kicking around? Writing this kind
> of thing
> KA> is fiddly and I'm on a short deadline.
>
> KA> Cheers.
>
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