Simple Detail Around A Corner

KateC

Quick question. I've been trying to create some simple trim around the curve of a building, but outside of manually copying, pasting and rotating each shape*, I'm not sure how to best approach this. I know there has to be a smarter/easier way of doing it, but I haven't had a whole lot of luck up to this point. Also, if this has been mentioned before just point me in the right direction.

* Go ahead, you'd be right to laugh.

ZacD

duplicate along curve, deform by curve, extrude it from a cylinder and delete the extra geometry, there's sooo many options.

Will Faucher

Bend Modifier? Array tool? Like it has been said above, alot of options! It might help to specify which program you are using though!

Hope this helped!

KateC

Oops! Maya, my bad.

My course focuses a lot on digital animation, but not really the ins and outs of environment modeling tricks, so I keep getting stuck on some of the small, 'you should know this by now' details.

I'll look into some of those a little further. Thanks!

Will Faucher

Ahh, the tricks I mentioned are for Max. I don't know if they apply in maya, but you can try!

divi

ZacD wrote: »

extrude it from a cylinder

once and copy+rotate it around the pivot.

Marine

slipgatecentral did a short tutorial on something like this, should be on his youtube or vimeo account

KateC

The cylinder extrusion worked perfectly, thanks! I can't even believe I didn't consider that the first time around.

Also, thanks Marine. I'll hunt around on both sites later tonight and check it out. Then my shame will be complete.

CheeseOnToast

Although your problem was quite easy to solve this time, you might want to grab the excellent script here :

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/misc/c/extended-duplicate-options

It's great for duplicating objects around complex curves. See also built-in Maya stuff like motion paths and flow paths for more of this kind of thing (just check the manual).