Spine Wrap in Modo?

JRay

Hey guys, I was hoping you could help me out with something. Currently I'm learning Modo for my personal work while at my workplace we use C4D. I was wondering if there was a way to duplicate a premade geometry piece along a spline in Modo like my example from C4D. My intention is to use this method for straps and belts for characters.

First of all, let me show you my setup in my C4D file.



As you can see I have the original piece of geometry and the spline that I want to duplicate along. I also have a rail spline in there so that I can have it twist any direction it needs as it duplicates along the spline. In my setup I also use a connect object that merges the points of the duplicates to make one solid piece. Last and most importantly I use the spline wrap to duplicate along the spline and set the orientation of the piece of geometry so it lines up correctly.

The results:

peanut™

Ooohh !! sexy ....

peanut™

Sorry took me a second to answer properly as i don't have modo in front of me. You should be able to do this using a little script called extrude along edge path. Let me know what you think.

http://www.indigosm.com/modoscripts.htm
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK0OsW-WL_s"]Seneca's Extrude Path script for modo - YouTube[/ame]

JRay

That is close to what I want but not quite it. Instead of extruding flat geometry along a path I want to be able to actually duplicate a premade piece of geometry so it places it end to end along a path.

repete

It's a hose but you get the idea :poly121:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HcSgNzpRT8"]Make a hose.mov - YouTube[/ame]

JRay

Hey guys, thanks for the replies but that's still not quite it. Like I said before, I don't want to extrude a flat piece of geometry along a curve. If you look at my example I have a piece of geometry with a hole cut into it and then that piece is duplicated along the curve so I don't have to make multiple holes, just once and then its duplicated. I guess maybe a better question to ask is if there's a way to constrain existing long strip of geometry to a spline so that it goes along with the curve.

peanut™

That's the way you would do it in Modo, not quite the nice results you get in Cinema4D but in a sense you could cross fit Cinema4d and Modo (import the belt in Modo once it extruded along the spline in Cinema4d) i used to do this in 3dsmax and LW.

repete

You can try this but it wont be painless. This is an updated version of the script.





http://zarchives.web.fc2.com/lib/190/191/sample191_v4.zip

illo

you can also just select the Item and then use duplicate->one of the curves types.
then weld verts and all that together.

dzibarik

repete wrote: »

You can try this but it wont be painless. This is an updated version of the script.





http://zarchives.web.fc2.com/lib/190/191/sample191_v4.zip

the link doesn't work unfortunately

repete

https://www.dropbox.com/s/moxvgw0nmlrbxwq/sample185_v4.lzh?dl=0


I can't get it to work on 801.

Bek

Only thing that comes to mind is path duplicate. But for memory that only works with really simple stuff, it won't deform your source mesh to smoothly follow the line... so I guess it's close but no cigar.

peanut™

@Jray

This isn't really useful because the way things are structured in Modo it's doable with a profile and such without any problem. Most people wouldn't ask for something like this.

But for the Modo legacy, it's important to have your flag at the peek of the mountain.

JRay

I was away for the weekend so I'll have to see if I can get that script to work tonight, it about looks like what I was looking for.

@peanut
I still don't think you understand what I'm trying to do unless there's a lot more to profiles that I didn't know about. I find being able to duplicate a more complex piece of geometry along a spline rather than having to add that detail into the geometry after its been extruded very useful.

Thanks for the answers guys. Its always nice to see what workflows will carry over when switching to a new program.