Guided Drop to Surface
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:47 pm
This is the most powerful fit to surface tool so far. You can wrap a complex 3D mesh over the surface of another complex 3D mesh.
Other tools in Curvy can map a mesh onto another object, but they will flatten the mesh exactly to the surface. This method preserves local depth in the wrapped model -see how the bars still line up over and under each other in the example below, and around the forehead and shin two bars wrap at different depths over the face. All of this was shaped in one click.
At the top you can see my source objects. The orange sphere is the Guide that you need to set up so the tool knows what "sea level" should be when it drops the mesh. This Guide does not have to be a sphere, it can be any model you like.
As with other "Fit" tools this works with a mesh selection, so you could easily - say - smoothly drop part of a model to a surface and transition to an undropped part.
Other tools in Curvy can map a mesh onto another object, but they will flatten the mesh exactly to the surface. This method preserves local depth in the wrapped model -see how the bars still line up over and under each other in the example below, and around the forehead and shin two bars wrap at different depths over the face. All of this was shaped in one click.
At the top you can see my source objects. The orange sphere is the Guide that you need to set up so the tool knows what "sea level" should be when it drops the mesh. This Guide does not have to be a sphere, it can be any model you like.
As with other "Fit" tools this works with a mesh selection, so you could easily - say - smoothly drop part of a model to a surface and transition to an undropped part.