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Zeusbwr

10-03-2005, 07:59 PM

Ok, basically i want to try drawing out a shape in a Curve, be it a Line Set of Vertices, a Curve, a Bezier Curve, etc, simply a line of vertices.

Now obviously i want them to be made into a poly shape. I cant even find a way at the moment, but what would the best way be to make say a tube around ( or part of ) that curve?

If you wanted to for example make a bunch of snakes spelling out something, how would yuo do it? I want to use curves because they are easy to modify, but once i get it the way i want it, i dont know what to do with the vertices themselves.

Thanks to any help!

saturnfive

10-04-2005, 09:11 AM

You can use the tube tool to plot your curves as poly shapes. Or you could create your splines and then loft a circle along them (use curve extrude, under duplicate)

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