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Tagged with modifiers bezier-curves
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How can curves be converted to meshes?
Is is possible to remove the curves and only have the mesh of a tree that was created with the saplings add-on?
I'd like to apply a decimate modifier to have a few low-poly trees, but this doesn't ...
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How can I duplicate a mesh along a curve?
I want to outline a curve in the form of text with a mesh (UV-sphere, cube etc.). How can I do that while saving mesh geometry without using the Curve modifier?
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How do I prevent object distortion when applying a curve modifier?
This is the profile of the object I'd like to wrap...
Here is the object's profile after being wrapped...
Is it possible to prevent the distortion? The following post here: http://blenderartists.org/...
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Snake Defensive Display animation
How one would approach this specific snake motion in Blender as shown in reference:
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The position of the snake visibly remains almost static while the body parts ...
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Repeating objects along a path
Is it possible to repeat my track object along a path? I tried using the method shown here Extrude along path using an array and then a curve modifier, but this happened when I added the curve ...
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Keeping Bezier spiral curve handle tilt perpendicular to a specific axis
It's doesn't seem to matter if I use the curves "extra objects" to make the spiral or just create it on my own. I can't seem to find a way to keep tilt parallel to any one axis. Or make tilt uniform ...
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Wrap curve around sphere
I couldn't find this anywhere, which is really strange, but I'm trying to wrap a curve, imported from a .svg made with a vector image program around a sphere to create the Earth.
Basically, this is ...
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How do I add a non-deformed end cap to a tube?
I want to create some parts that I can reuse for models. I was trying to make a steam punkish exhaust pipe. I want to be able to make the pipe of any length, and as curvy as I like but I want to keep ...
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Why is the curve modifier deforming strangely?
I modelled a part of a bicycle chain added an Array and a Curve Modifier
everything worked nicely until I added cogs and translated and scaled the chain parts to fit the cogs.
I tried to apply ...
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Dotted line on curve?
I'm making a video, and I have two identical objects that start in the same place and then separate. I want to have a dotted line connecting them which appears only when the two objects start ...
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How do I interpolate two Bézier Curves and create instances in between?
I am trying to create realistic book pages. I've created two Bézier curves for the top and bottom pages, and now I'm trying to "interpolate" them and create instances between the two curves. ...
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Deform mesh along two curves
I'm trying to modify a mesh so that one side gets modified along a curve, and one other side gets modified along another curve.
I tried with vertex groups but it only moves the vertexes in the group, ...
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Geometry Nodes: Is it possible to connect point instances with curves? (Blender 3.0)
on my current scene I am trying to create a geometry node system that let's me distribute power poles along a street. The street is made of a curve and I can of course use that curve in combination ...
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Problems with Curve Modifier
Every time I think I have the curve modifier mastered, it throws me a another curve ball (no pun intended).
Why in this blend file can I not get the lights to follow the spiral curve? When the ...
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Geometry Nodes - rotate point along curve tangent
How can I rotate each point so that each follows the tangent of the curve using geometry nodes?
Right now, every point’s rotation is the same.
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