As someone mentioned before (maybe dropped off the list) you could try a
surface deform instead of a curve deform/extrude. Pre-extrude the belt and
curve-deform it to a grid, starting from the ammobox to the gun. You'll
probably always end up with having not enough control over the
roll/bank/tangency of the profile, but I would give it a try..
That stuff would be much easier if we had cardinal curves in XSI.
I also remember an addon from Mr. Kim Aldis that did much better exrusions
with nice control over the tangencies on a extruded surface ("KAExtrude" or
something). Don't know if it was commercial or free.
regards,
sven
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Szabolcs
Matefy
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 17:23
To: <mailto:[email protected]>
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Subject: RE: Extrude questions
I need to create an ammo belt. For this, I have a minigun with the input
slot, and an ammo box, with the output slot. I have a curve for the belt,
and a cross-section. What I need is the ability to set both the start and
the end profile. Otherwise, the behavior of the ending crossection is not
predictable
Cheers
Szabolcs
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Laforge
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 5:13 PM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Extrude questions
Hi Szabolcs,
I'm not sure to understand correctly, but it looks like you need something
similar to a "Bridge Polygons", but with the ability to add some cross
sections evenly spaced along the bridge right ?
I made a little prototype using ICE modeling : picture
<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/BridgeExtrusion.jpg>
<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/BridgeExtrusion.jpg> and sample
scene <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5533643/Softimage/BridgeExtrusion.scn> .
It was just an excuse to play with ICE ;-), but maybe it will help or give
you some ideas.
Cheers
Guillaume Laforge
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Szabolcs Matefy <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey folks,
Does anybody know, if there is solution to the following issue. I have a
minigun and an ammo backpack. I have to make the ammo belt. I have to make
sure, that the beginning and the ending cross-section fits into the slots.
Technically I want to make sure, that the extrusion starts from a given
profile and ends in a given profile without any roll and so on that used the
happen in XSI.
Huh
Cheers
Szabolcs
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