animated spline

[radioVOY]

i have problems cos' i need to animate a loft.

 

i have a shape and i need to extrude it from a defined spline path, the problem is that i need to render all the growing effect.

 

do you have any method to do this??

 

easy or complex please share.

 

thanks in advance.

[William Alexander]

Software?

 

If you are using Max6, there is a help tutorial that shipped with it about having a pen apply worded text to paper, using extrusion to spline. Looks like the pen is drawing out the text. Sounds very similar to your project.

 

Cheers

WDA

[radioVOY]

im trying with both max 6 and viz4.

 

sound similar, to be more specific a need something similar of the HD project of this guys (k+d lab) http://www.kdlab.net/ check all the site its superb.

[abicalho]

VIZ 4 does not animate modifiers, splines, etc. MAX 6 does that and it's pretty easy to do so. All you have to do is create your Loft using "Instance" and then animating the original object - the loft will be animated automatically.

 

Alexander

[radioVOY]

thanks for the tips, but in this case pathdeform is the answer.

 

thanks William for the reference the pen tut in max 6 gime all the answers.

 

thanks for the help.

[William Alexander]

radioVOY,

 

Glad it helped, I'd check out Alexander's solution also! I believe it to be more flexible and possible to create as you go.

 

Wm