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converting a CV curve to a renderable mesh?

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hoaken

hoaken
Posted: 01 December 2009 08:14 PM

Location: Wiltshire, UK
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Hiya all.

In 3DS, you can create a curve but then have options to make it renderable plus be able to modify its thickness. It basically “converts” the curve/line to a cylinder mesh (that follows the curvature of the curve/line). The thickness is the diameter of the cylinder.

Is something like this possible in Maya?

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halfstone

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Posted: 01 December 2009 09:42 PM

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you can extrude a circle along the curve - leave the construction history on and control the thickness by changing the diameter or scale of the circle

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Okay, I give that a go. Thanks

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n8skow

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Posted: 02 December 2009 01:51 AM

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You could try attaching a paintFX brush to it…

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Could you expand on that? What will paintFX do?

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n8skow

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Posted: 02 December 2009 07:25 AM

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You could use something like one of the marker paintFX brushes (attach it to your CV curve by going to “paint effects - curve utilities - attach brush to curves")

Then just modify the paintFX brush to your liking.

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