 | | | Curve deformation | Curve deformation 2003-11-21 - By Aleksandar Stiglic
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Just to clear up, to bend lattice you should use wire deformer on lattice.
To do this you need to blend shape straight curve to your curve,
then use this to warp lattice...
Al
Aleksandar Stiglic wrote:
> If I understand right, all you need to do is to download CreateTube mel script
> from highend.
> It does most of combinations I can think of you might need.
>
> If that's not to your liking, what you can do is make latice on an object,
> and then put warp on this latice with curve. This way shape of the curve
> will infuence lattice. Then if you transform object from out of lattice in,
> it will deform in curve shape. Hope this is enough for principle...
>
> Al
>
> Joey Ponthieux 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?
> >
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> > Joey Ponthieux
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> > NASA Langley Research Center
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