> I think the Tool you are searching for is called "Radial Deformator" and
> it's located on the Construction tab.
> kind regards,
> Michael
No . Actually this is another "not-quite-right" version of the pre-
viously mentioned "Move Tool" with "Collision Deformation" that I
posted in a mail last night (complete with pictures!)
It will appear that it's not actually working (surprise-surprise)
but I've discovered (yet another) work-around .
1) Fire up RS3D .
2) Click the "Reset View to Native state" icon and make it parallel .
3) Switch to side view and create a default SDS Sphere .
4) From the Construction Tab select "Radial Deformer" .
5) Draw a circle with this tool on your sphere .
6) Switch back to your native front view and move the R-D tool
object near the side of your sphere .
7) Now showing in your Control Bar is a tool "Bind to Sibling"
8) Click on it .
9) Now , move your "Rad-deform" object and watch ... nothing !
10) Try all kinds of tweaking in the curve in the Property Window.
11) Admit defeat eventually and just go to the manual for help .
12) Do a search of the manual using Zaugs Java search engine .
13) No results - so then try the Reference manual .
14) This Tool does not exist according to the Reference manual .
15) Eureka ! A hit from the search engine !
16) Read the only piece of info on this tool anywhere..."For exam-
ple, a radial deformer can be used for generating a bump to a mesh"
17) Think about taking up golfing instead of
18) Spending your life testing out this S/W .
19) Play with all the controls until you finally see where the problem
is (this time) .
20) Finally ... increase the "Size" slider by a factor of 10 .
21) Move the deformer and you'll see that sometimes it will move the
mesh in yet another odd , non-intuative way .
This is about as close to "magnetism" as chicken scratch is to
chicken salad . I'm sure it has it's place on certain meshes
using the 'Curve' object for displacing certain shapes but as
a general easy-to-use molding and modeling tool it is a zero .
studio
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