sweep plug-in

[mtpeak2]

Emilio,

 

Here's a quick test of animating it to a path. Needed more cross sections.

 

Thanks again.

[steve392]

Hehe thats good ,hope you will do a tut on how you do that as I'm not getting the hang of using sweep yet

[mtpeak2]

Here's a better example.

[steve392]

Thank's mtpeak2 thats even better ,I'm getting the hang of it now ,,but how on earth do you do it over time ?

[jfirestine]

Sweet!

Lookin' good!

[Emilio Le Roux]

yeah, mtpeak2, how did you do thaT??

 

Emilio

[mtpeak2]

Thats guys.

 

It was pretty easy. When I created the sweep model, the shape I got by using the font wizard and deleting the back half. Then for the extruding path I just created a straight spline with enough cp's for the cross sections to make a nice curve when animated. Then used the sweep plug-in. After that I boned each cross section, bones should not be attached to each other. Drag the model into the choreography and create a curved path. Constrain the bones to the path. Set the eases for each constraint to 0% or close to it (so they don't overlap) on frame 0 and turn off store roll. Then on the last frame set the ease for the first bone and the last bone to 0% and 100% ease and adjust the in-betweens to create a nice even curved shape. If you want it to follow like I did in the first clip, when you set the eases for the nice curve, just do that on say frame 15, then on frame 30 set the eases to 100% for all of them or close to it so they don't overlap. That's it. I hope I made myself clear enough to follow along. If you any questions about it or problems just post it here.

[Emilio Le Roux]

That was a good idea indeed. I haven't thought about using the plugin for things like that!

[mtpeak2]

Thanks Emilio.

 

I'm not a very good modeler, so any help I can get to make things easier is a big plus. Your pic of the window with all that detail was amazing. Trying to model that would be a nightmare for me. And your pic of the sweep with the curve gave me the idea for this.

[steve392]

Thank's a lot mtpeak2 for explaining that ,what a combination and what a excelant plug in thank's a lot Emilio Le Roux

[JohnArtbox]

some thee minute bridges using sweep

Emilio..You are the Man!

...this week

[KenH]

If there were an award for plugins, Emilio, you'd be right up there!

[mtpeak2]

Cool bridge John.

 

I've been playing with the new plug-in.