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Vizfizz
12-02-2006, 08:43 PM
Peter Lehrack asked if Placer could work with Swage. I knew that it would, but he had a great project to test it with. He had built a tunnel with Placer Deposit and an imported piece of geometry from a different program for the Tunnel's Stamp Surface. The bricks are simple Ubershapes. Well, just for fun, I took his project, and added some Swage capabilities. I'm very happy with the results. Imagine if you had to place these bricks by hand. Ugh..

http://www.paralumino.com/EIAS/Para_Tour.mov

http://www.paralumino.com/EIAS/Swage_Placer.jpg
evant
12-04-2006, 08:56 PM
wow, now that is fancy!
Vizfizz
12-04-2006, 09:05 PM
For our next trick, Peter is trying to combine Trestle, Swage, and DaVinci's together to animate the carving of channels into a ground plane. This should work and if it does what I think it will do, the animated Swage extrusion along the ground plane will "dig" the channel and then Peter will use another Swage instance to animate/sweep in the bricks.

Hope the DaVinci trick works. It could be a great way to carve custom shapes.

If any other Trestle/Swage users who have DaVinci's can try something like this, please show us some results.
Vizfizz
12-04-2006, 10:54 PM
Just an update. I've gotten Trestle, Swage and Tailor Tool working with one another rather well. (Since I don't have DaVinci's) I'll try to post some samples when I get a chance. Now you can animate your extrusion along the path, and it will carve out the results. Oh and Swage bevels work with it too.
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