how to merge lofts
how to merge lofts
ladies bonnet
while trying to work out how simon did his arch
i discovered how you can merge lofts without forming holes in curvy
1 make your loft
2 make two copies of it
3 move one copy slightly in one direction
4 move the other copy slightly in the other direction
5 do the merge
what i mean by direction:-
keeping the plane of the lofts parallel with one another, moving along the normal
can be confusing to look at when group merging
better to have a practice with quick merge first
Last edited by sculptor on Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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I couldn't reproduce the effect you got with a simple translation - But I did get a similar effect by using a white curvy map with a 50% grey border. The border claps the edges shut and allows for an easy and clean merge.
Speckled one is a single loft - smooth one is a merged loft after duplication and curvy map offset.
Here is the curvy map I used - it is very simple but also very useful!
http://www.curvy3d.com/images/Cloth.BMP
And just to show it is a full merge - here is a test with an extra line cutting through the loft.
Speckled one is a single loft - smooth one is a merged loft after duplication and curvy map offset.
Here is the curvy map I used - it is very simple but also very useful!
http://www.curvy3d.com/images/Cloth.BMP
And just to show it is a full merge - here is a test with an extra line cutting through the loft.
Last edited by Simon on Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
the clamping edges seems a great idea
i used quick merge all rather than merge group because merge group leaves the original loft which interacts and looks strange.
slight confusion in your use of the word lathe rather than loft.
but great you seem to have developed a working system
this extends curvy's capabilities
i used quick merge all rather than merge group because merge group leaves the original loft which interacts and looks strange.
slight confusion in your use of the word lathe rather than loft.
but great you seem to have developed a working system
this extends curvy's capabilities