Hey everyone

I my latest file i have posed a ribbon on a table, in with a few twist, turns and overlapping areas. After posing it i though i might be interesting to have a Wave modifier travel along the surface of the ribbon following all the twist and turns, but so far most of my attempts have failed. Does anyone know how i can accomplish this?

Raz

I’m not sure how you have modeled it but if you can have the wave before the twisting in the modifier stack it will be easy. If you can’t do that it will be far harder. If the wave supposed to be along the whole ribbon the whole time?

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Hi Paul

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately i posed the ribbon first and collapsed the stack. Yah the idea I had in mind was to have a single wave (bump) travel through the ribbon, as if it was following a path. But i am not sure how i could accomplish this.

Raz

(by the way, i refer too your web-page all the time, thanks)

here i got a render to give you guys a better idea

As you can see the ribbon is already posed out, what i wanted to accomplish was to have a wave (pulse) travel along the ribbons length.

would i use an extracted path to accomplish this?

Raz

Open to any ideas?

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Having now seen the model, and knowing it has been collapsed, one thing I could suggest is a Displace spacewarp on a path constraint that follows the shape.

Thanks,

i have never heard of Displacement spacewarp, but i’ll have a look into it.