need help with the spacing tool - y u no follow?!

Lonewolf

sup
can someone help me out and explain why when i mark the follow it usually dont work right?

i mean for examples i wanna use rivets here but u see some or facing right and some turned

what do i need to do to make it follow correctly?

Lonewolf

forgot to mention the pash made made by slecting the edge and creat shape

SpeCter

Could you show the reference rivet with his pivot? Most likely you have to rotate the pivot 90 degrees around the y-axis.

Ark

Maybe there some rotation info still present on the rivet, have you tried resetting the x-form on the rivet before using the spacing tool?

Lonewolf

SpeCter wrote: »

Could you show the reference rivet with his pivot? Most likely you have to rotate the pivot 90 degrees around the y-axis.

dont think its cause of the rivet cause its facing ok in some parts and some dont?

Ark wrote: »

Maybe there some rotation info still present on the rivet, have you tried resetting the x-form on the rivet before using the spacing tool?

yea tried that, i also made and box and tried it too, some rotation problems, some places ok some getting weirdly flipped

O_O

u should look only on the 2 big circles, all the other ware fixes manually but it really annoying and time consuming

SpeCter

I think it´s the rivots pivot i made a small picture to show the difference:

Mark Dygert

Humm if its not the pivot that is causing it, you might be able to animate/morph the path spline flat, apply the spacing to the flat state then morph/animate it back to the original state. You might have to skin or skinwrap the rivets to the path to get them to follow along.

Or... you could use the PathDeform(WSM) modifier, very similar idea, not quite as flexible but it wouldn't twist each object.

but I would investigate the pivot point first...

Lonewolf

does this pic help?

thanx for the help

SpeCter

Not sure if you solved it or not(the 2 circles look ok now i guess?) but essentially this is what your pivot should look like:


Note how the World Pivot is facing in another direction as the local one.

Lonewolf

yea the 2 circle are ok now, i rotated the rivet 90 but im not sure what it did

on your pic here, can u explain the meaning of it? maybe this is what happend but not sure



thanx guys!

SpeCter

The spacing tool uses one particular axis to determine the orientation, if this axis is not aligned with whatever you want to clone and space it will do horrible things. If you rotate your object its local pivot changes, that´s what you did. You can do the same if you just turn the pivot itself with Adjust Pivot ->Affect Pivot only.

In the picture i rotated the Local Pivot 90 degrees.The normal gizmo represents the worlds orientation. the other one the orientation of the object itself.

Lonewolf

awesome got it
thanx

SpeCter

That´s good to hear, because i´m horrible at explaining things the easy way xD

Lonewolf

im horrible at understanding easy things so it works!

lol