 | | | Curve deformation | Curve deformation 2003-11-21 - By Elvira Pinkhas
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Hi,
There are 2 ways that I know of how you can grow a cylinder along a path.
Both use history to do this.
1) your two curves, go to Surfaces-> extrude. Reset the options. Then change
from "complete" to "partial" (this is what allows the growth), You'll get your
extuded cylinder.
Now go into the attribute editor, into the extrude history node - there make
sure you have the following:
-use component pivot set to component pivot
-make sure use profile normal and fixed path are checked
This aligns your cylinder to your curve.
Also you should see that you have connections from Profile Curve and Path Curve
. You need to go into Path Curve and animate the max value there.
2) The second way is using the detach curve command and extrude. Make your
profile curve, go into component mode and select one of the edit points, then
go into options of Edit Curves->Detach Curves and check off "keep orginal".
After this operation you end up with 2 curves and your original, you can delete
one of the new curves. Use the other one by going into its channel box and
animating the parameter[0] under the Inputs tab to make the curve grow.
Now you can extrude using this curve as your profile but make sure all the
history is there.
If you have any questions about this, let me know.
Elvira
Joey Ponthieux <j.g.ponthieux@(protected)> wrote:
Hello,
Is there any way to deform an object along a curve. I am attempting to
make a cylinder grow along a path. I assumed this would be as simple as
setting up an extrusion on a path, but Length doesn't work in Tube mode.
I am unaware of any way to deform an object to spline or surface using
Maya's normal set of tools. I know there was a plugin written called
surfaceDeformer and its on Highend3D, but it only works on Maya 3.0 and
I need to do this in 5.0. Does any one know of a way to animate an
extrude along a curve?
--
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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