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johnny_riptide

01-18-2002, 01:34 PM

I'm hunting a script that would take selected edges of a poly or mesh and convert the selection to a spline which could then be used as a path for a loft. Any ideas or leads would be greatly appreciated.

xynaria

01-18-2002, 04:03 PM

If you vist www.max3dstuff.com. Peter Watje decided to write such a thing some time ago and it is there amongst a host of other useful scripts and stuff. :)

01-18-2002, 04:22 PM

For ease of use and instant gratification - you could use max's built in "Create Shape From Edge".

Under you're edge subobject rollout there will be an option to create a shape from your selection. With the option of linear (exact copy) or smooth (exact copy with smooth verts) - I reccomend selection linear and then manually tweaking the resultant shape.

V.hand for quickly turning a mesh into a Quad spline cage for Surface Tools... :D

Hope this helps!

johnny_riptide

01-18-2002, 06:24 PM

BINGO!!!, that's it - "Create Shape From Edges"

That's exactly what looking for guys!!! Damn, and it was there all along - oh well, live and learn I guess.

Thanks for the replies. Hopefully someday I can return the favor.

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