RE: Speaking of EPS curves...

["Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>]

The really annoying thing is, I’m ¾ way into a curve along curve extrusion tool that just wasn’t quite ready for this job. Here’s some features:-

 

·         It doesn’t twist in a nasty way along the curve. (that’s a feature? Sheesh).

·         It creates a poly mesh by doing approximately even interpolation steps along the curves. But … it still hits the knots. Which means you get mesh points on the corners but still get (more or less) even sized polys along the curves.

·         You can use more than one profile curve to sweep along a curve. It uses a function curve to interpolate between the profile shapes. Because the interpolation always hits knots you’re guaranteed to be able to correctly blend between shapes like squares and, say hexagons. It does a pretty spiffy job of it too.

·         You can translate, rotate and scale the profile curves, using fcurves to change transforms along the curves.

 

I’ll have to try and drum up some enthusiasm and get it finished.

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Kris Rivel
Sent: 31 July 2007 18:13
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Speaking of EPS curves...

 

Ha ha...what do you know!  Cool!  Learning something everyday still.  Can we get a "doh" from Eric :-) or are we missing something?

Kris

On 7/31/07, Grahame Fuller <grahamef(at)softimage.com> wrote:

I just tried that and it works too. Select either the path or the
profile, choose the command, and pick a new curve.

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Kris Rivel
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:04 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Speaking of EPS curves...


Well substitute input works with curve deforms or extruding a poly along
a curve but I think Eric is talking about taking an EPS curve and
extruding a mesh from curves.  It would be handy to substitute an input
for this sort of thing.

Kris


On 7/31/07, Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk> wrote:

        Would selecting the op in the history stack, then choosing
        Edit>Operator>SubstituteInput, do the job?
        Or does it not work in this instance?

        Eric Lampi wrote:
        > Know what would be useful?  Being able to update extruded geo
by re-linking it to a new, imported EPS curve.
        >
        > I had one of those hellish motion graphics jobs where the
client seemed incapable of approving a layout and typeface unless it was
fully animated and rendered.
        >
        > It would have saved me tons of time if I could have loaded a
new curve and somehow linked it to my geo.  Those of you who have worked
in commercials know what I am talking about.
        >
        > E
        >
        > Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist
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