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tip
if any lofts get their normals accidentally inverted the align tool (preset all layers ) in accutrans3d will put them right.
(accutrans 3d has free 30 day trial and only costs 20$)

http://www.banjosculptor.info/cloth.jpg Above construction made with ONE loft copied 3 times. Curvy has a slightly non intuitive system for loft drawing and at first use it appears only capable of drawing flat planes or buckled sheets. Here's the secret - don't try to draw it in one go. for example...

just one of the many ways curvy can make rock
curvy map applied to a loft

curvy does not create a mtl (material) file with its obj object export. But it does save any changed textures. (as mentioned in the link i gave you) In your 3d program you just re-import those textures (or any others) and reapply them to your model. (i use fragmotion) Sometimes the textures have to ...

http://www.banjosculptor.info/speaker.jpg how to -- create a simple rectangular loft in front view use ruler tool to straighten lines convert top and bottom horizontal lines to semi-circles use the side view to rotate these top and bottom curves each by 90 degrees push up resolution slider curvy ma...

hi

this link may help

viewtopic.php?p=11833&highlight=#11833

what a cool idea

Thanks, I starting to get it now

May be obvious to most users (but it wasn't to me) :lol: Here is a script to draw a cube (curvy 1.5) (always save work BEFORE using a script) http://www.banjosculptor.info/boxscript.txt (right click save as) Principle 1 Draw an approximate curve to shape required. 2 reduce resolution slider down til...

Thanks for info Simon.
Not quite sure what you mean by backlighting, could you
expand on that a bit ?

direct from beta

starting to improve head textures
but still having problems with lighting
any tips for curvy lighting would be appreciated

have now started using bryce so should be able to start producing some better images. (hopefully)

direct from curvy 1.5
single mesh

Brings together my experiments with script extensions and gamma correction.

It has some very interesting properties and most importantly they are controllable .