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simon-s
05-15-2005, 11:40 AM
Hi, I have just moved over to lightwave 8 from 7.5 and I am slightly confused about the new rail extrude tool...

The tool is now called rail extrude: multiple, and it doesnt seem to do anything. I cant seem to make it work like the previous rail extrude.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
toonafish
05-15-2005, 12:08 PM
It should work exactly as in 7.5. Nothing changed to the rail extrude tool in about a century ;-)

Curve in background, object in foreground ( aligned to curve ) and extrude away.
simon-s
05-15-2005, 01:34 PM
That is exactly my problem...i'm doing that and nothing happens :(
toonafish
05-16-2005, 02:25 PM
Maybe the rail Extrude plugin tool is not attached to the Rail Extrude button ? You could check the menu layout to see what is attached to that button.
simon-s
05-16-2005, 02:35 PM
It turns out that I had multiple splines in the background layer....

When I then hit rail extrude, it causes "rail extrude: multiple" to activate. Which is what doesnt seem to do anything at all?????

When I use only one spline in BG layer (as i normally would) and hit rail extrude, i get "rail extrude:single" which behaves as normal.

Panic over!
Insider
05-17-2005, 01:03 AM
Actually, multiple rail extrude is pretty cool. Take two curves for example, and bring their front ends close together. Then in another layer, make say, a disc that encompasses both curve ends. Then run the multiple extrude and see what happens.
simon-s
05-17-2005, 06:57 AM
Wow, that is cool...I love those happy accidents!


Thanks!
simon-s
05-17-2005, 07:02 AM
I love your work by the way!
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