telephone wire with nurbs simple question

[kaas]

ok , i found the tool , i just needed to extrude the circle around a cuirve.

but i cant tweak it so i get the result below ,

http://www.robharvey.com/animage/rope-sm2.jpg or
http://www.nd.edu/~atovar/fun/wallpaper/textures/rope.jpg

does any body has tips ? i want it to look like a boxring rope and animate it to .

grtz kaas

[wgreenlee1]

What do you want a rope or telephone cord?
Sorry I for one am confuzzled....:surprised

[DeathBrain]

For a rope :
create nurbs circle
translateX 0.959
translateZ 45.046
ScaleXYZ 1.17

Load your Spiral MEL
Enter command : spiral 90 1 15;
rotate X 90

Select circle, shift select spline > surface > extrude
Ctr-D (copy) then rotate Z to arround -180 to -185.000

I hope that helps :)

http://www.geocities.com/zigaretos/robe.txt

[DeathBrain]

Originally posted by wgreenlee1
Sorry I for one am confuzzled....:surprised
Yeap..me too...:surprised

[kaas]

sry for the confuse stuff , i wanted to make a rope but in the first post i want to know te technic to make a telefon wire en then tweak it to a rope ..

tnx
kaas

[kaas]

Originally posted by DeathBrain
For robe :
create nurbs circle
translateX 0.959
translateZ 45.046
ScaleXYZ 1.17

Load your Spiral MEL
Enter command : spiral 90 1 15;
rotate X 90

Select circle, shift select spline > surface > extrude
Ctr-D (copy) then rotate Z to arround -180 to -185.000

I hope that helps :)

http://www.geocities.com/zigaretos/robe.txt

wich version of the spiral mel do you use ? i have downloaded v2.0 from highend3d but i cannot use this command line : spiral 90 1 15; .

i am sorry that i ask somuch.

grtz
kaas

[DeathBrain]

Maya has built in Spiral tools, located on Maya > scripts > unsupported
or you could search Spiral.mel :)

[kaas]

yeah , i found it out ,tnx for the support and cheers !

grtz
kaas

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