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How to align an object along a spiral without distortion?

Goal: I am trying to create a helix made of stacks of an object. How I tried to do it: I created an Archimedian Spiral with the desired dimenisons Since the object itself always is distorted when I ...
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How can I instance this array along the curve?

I have created a ball chain to wrap around my object and to do this i added one uv sphere and then added a nurbs circle, array and curve modifier. The problem is that naturally each sphere add more to ...
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How to export an animation that uses a curve modifier?

This is my animation of a shotgun ammo belt. It uses a set of placeholder Plane meshes along a Bezier curve that instance my shell model. By moving the planes across the z axis, the shells feed into ...
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Hide instance (original) light while keeping the instanced versions

I've created a lightchain. For that lightchain I need a point light at every "bulb", as an emitting material is too weak of a lightsource. To achieve this I have created an array of planes ...
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How do I move an object with a curve modifier applied to it?

To start, I have an example scene setup illustrating my setup. I have a round-ended cylinder that I've applied a Simple Deformation to taper it, and then a Curve to make it into a hooked claw or ...
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