Questions tagged [curve-modifier]
The Curve modifier provides a simple but efficient method of deforming a mesh along a curve object. Use this tag for questions about using the Curve modifier.
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Animating an abstract curve / spline in a battle rope workout S shaped motion? [duplicate]
Does anyone know what's the best way of animating an abstract curve shape (created as a spline, it's not completely geometrically balanced) that has the motion of a battle rope ? See reference images. ...
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rig a tram with combination of curve modifier and follow path constraint?
I'm having trouble rigging my tram. trams have two things. they follow a path with multiple individual cars
I achieved this by using the follow path constraint on two objects (cubes for now)
they also ...
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How to modify the radius value of curves with map range (0 and 1) from "set curve radius" node in procedural mode in blender 5.0?
I am following a tutorial to create an Earth with continents and night lights using Blender 4.1.1.
Many nodes have changed in Blender 5.0, and it is quite difficult to find an alternative to manage ...
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How to properly align the rotations of the rectangles? [duplicate]
I need to perfectly align the rectangles the same way as in the other photo while they’re moving in loop.
Here's the project file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hn7GMNroY4V6oCsCBRf6d4kfJCK_kh2Q/...
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How to move the objects along the curve?
I need to move the rectangle objects on the curve so it will be like a flowing wave.
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Animating a Spaghetti S-Curve (wave modifier, shape keys) not smooth?
does anyone know what's the best way to animate this curve? I want to animate it like S-shape wave going through the curve. I tried using both wave modifier (but it affects the whole shape) and also ...
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How to apply a curve modifier to a cylinder from the horizontal edges of an octagonal sphere ? Blender 5.0
I, try to understand how blender apply curve to a 3D shape as cylinder .
I have a logo surrounded by bands that rotate around it. The bands (cylinders) are formed from a sphere that has a resolution ...
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Conveyer Belt Simulation Wrong Fall Off
I am trying to simulate rocks following the belt, then falling off the belt landing on another.
But when experimenting, sometimes its working fine. But most of the time (as you can see in the Image) ...
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two objects following two curves at the same time
I am pretty new to blender and I spent a lot of hours on this problem, but I can't figure out a solution.
I have two points following each one a different curve. These curves should represent function-...
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How can i go about doing this animation where a cylinder gets ticker from the bottom up?
The poster in question
I've figured out I should do a path and attach a cylinder to it. However, I'm stuck in the animation part. What would be an easy way to do this?
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Array/curve modifier is not following curve
I am trying to set up fencing, I need the fence panels to follow the curve I have set up. I have tried using an array and a curve modifier to do this, but when selecting the curve, it does not follow ...
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Use Curve Control Point Radius to Scale Mesh only in x axis?
I am building a racing track in blender. The way I set everything up is I use the array and curve modifiers on a plane to make it follow a curve and I added some cubes on the sides of the plane to ...
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Falling feather/petal animation follow Path/deform curve
I saw this answer to a falling feather animation. The answer doesn’t provide any explanation beyond mentioning a Curve Deform Modifier.
For my project, I have a Lotus flower animation in which a ...
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Curve deformed object won't shade smooth
I'm working on a model for a player piano using a curve deform modifier. I can't seem to get the paper roll to shade smooth.
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How to add circle width to a curve on a grid using nodes?
I'm a 2D motion designer new to blender and am figuring things out as I go - would appreciate any input!
I'm trying to create a scene with roots coming out of a block of soil - I've gotten pretty far ...
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how to avoid this problem ? Curve + Array modifiers [duplicate]
Im try to use the array modifier + curve to create this tank tracks, the curve modiffier deforms the mesh
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How can I parent a nurbs curve to an armature bone?
I added the Array and Curve modifiers to a mesh so that it runs along a nurbs curve to form part of a character. Now I want to parent the result to the character's armature. The shape of the arrayed ...
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hair coloring during interpolation
there are hairs on the ball. but when interpolation is turned on, the color gets lost, that is, where the blue surface is there, the hair is blue, and when interpolating, everything is gray. how to ...
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Using curves to make a coaster track
I have been using blender to make a roller coaster track for a real life project. I have tried using an array+curve modifier, and geometry nodes, but both deform the mesh too much. All of the ...
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Geometry Nodes: Grass Generation in Gaps and Around Stones on a Curve Array
I’m using a Geometry Nodes setup (originally from @zeroskilz of Blender Artist Community, linked here: An Array on Curve of two different objects (with different dimensions) made with Geometry Nodes?) ...
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follow curve z-up without shear?
I have a mesh that looks like a long strip (for this example just a bunch of letters). I want to wrap it around a helix, as if it was a ribbon that I'm winding around a stick.
I have the helix I want ...
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curve outside edge of mesh
I have a cylinder that I want to taper one edge to the center of the mesh at a curve.
I want the curve to be smooth. When I extrude the edge of the cylinder out, then rotate it and push it to the ...
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Plane not following curve
The plane is twisted not following the curve. I have applied loc, rot and scale but nothing to do. Can anyone help please? I followed the other solutions similar to my issue but they didn't help.
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Unable to find Curve tool on 2D animation page
Its little funny, but as I am beginner and trying to learn 2D animation from you tube and downloaded Blender 4.4. Now the problem is, in that you-tube video there was a tool bar of pencils or other ...
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How to Model a Crown Gear with Teeth on the Top Face
Are there any good YouTube tutorials on how to model a Crown Gear (also known as a Face Gear or Contrate Gear). I haven’t found any information on how to create a gear with teeth projecting from the ...
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Instances of array rotate weirdly in this part of the curve
I want to create a conveyor belt with these multiple rigid segments. To do that I used an array and curve modifier on a plane. I parented the modeled belt-segment to the plane and checked instancing. ...
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Can we still deform an alembic with modifiers?
I'm trying to learn more particles, and this tutorial has some awesome ideas about exporting particle sims as an alembic, then deforming them with modifiers to make this incredible vortex effect. It ...
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stop object from deforming in curve modifier
I tried the method in Derek's tutorial https://youtu.be/I-JvfzDTMZk?feature=shared&t=554 by adding a plane then turning "instances" on in object properties but it won't work and maybe ...
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Why are the x and z-axis switched when I want to move an object along a curve?
I want to duplicate my object along a curve. However the initial position is off.
I want to move the object down, but when I try to move it along the Z-axis it is actually moving along the X-axis, see ...
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Visable lines, when using the curve modifier [duplicate]
I'm having some issues with the Curve Modifier. When I use it on my model, which is super high-poly (see pictures), it creates very visible lines throughout the model, making it look weird and not how ...
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How to curve the side of th e propeller design using bridge edge loops?
I'm new to Blender and I have a propeller blade. The problem is that when I loft the profiles to create the blade, the last two profiles does not create a proper curve.
Is there a way for me to curve ...
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Rope chair weaving with loops at both ends and on different hights
Help me pls, how do i make this kind of weaving?
Top side is easy, but problem is to tie it up to bottom part. iI tried to use curve modif just for bottom vertexes, but it go everywere except where i ...
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Curve Modifier Not Working with Converted Grease Pencil Curve
I found this thread, but it didn't work for me. I created a Grease Pencil stroke, converted it to a mesh, and then to a curve. The normals of the curve are oriented correctly and all objects have ...
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Why isn't my object following the bezier curve?
I'm trying to get my object to follow a bezier curve and for some reason it's not following it exactly. I followed this youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5YwrUTUAV0 and it seems to ...
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How do I make a loop-de-loop without distorting the track?
I'm relatively new to Blender and I'm trying to make a race track. There is supposed to be a loop-de-loop and I'm using the array-curve modifier technique to do that. However, when I try this, the ...
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90° film wrapping on cylinder
I am trying to animate a film which get wrapped around a cylindric bar in a 90° direction. At my first approach I did this by manipulate the alpha channel of the material.
(see the attached gif).
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Help with Animating a Leech-like Creature on a Parent Character’s Deforming Surface
I’m working on an animation where I need to animate a leech-like creature (a rigged child character) moving along the surface of another rigged and animated parent character. The parent characters is ...
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Objects Disappearing When in Top-Down View (And Array/Curve Modifier Oddities) (Blender 4.2.3)
I'm trying to edit a map from a game by building roads using curves. The best "workflow" I know of is to go into top-down view to move each node of the curve on the X and Y axis before going ...
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Array + Curve modifiers, objects won't follow a curve [duplicate]
I want to duplicate a segment along the Bezier curve. It should look like this in a final result
Any prior transformation was applied, transform set to pivot point, everything is positioned on 0.
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Geometry nodes - Extrude along a Poli curve path
I´m trying to recreate this tutorial in Blender 4.2 without success. I don´t know if the problem was in the Sample Index node. I need sharp corners without distortion. Any clue?
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Follow curve, but keep vertical alignment
I am wanting to model a railing on a footbridge that follows a complex curve; first going to the right, but then descending as it curves, and then descending but straight.
I can get the base object to ...
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Curve modifier weird results
I've been trying to attach an already ring-shaped object to a circular curve. But despite playing with the deform axis, origins, scales, rotations... I can't figure out why my object is deformed in ...
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Curve Modifier problem while making a Rolling banner for VFX Video
I was trying to create a VFX video have a rolling banner on a building and now I have a problem regarding the Curve modifier.
I already subdivided the plane and set origin to geometry , applied all , ...
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Modeling the replacement of a conveyor belt
Im new to blender and im trying to animate the replacement of a conveyor belt, the model has the new rolled belt (which i modeled creating a spiral curve, then transforming it into a mesh and then ...
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Why can't I deform a cylinder to a curve I created?
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As you can see, I have a curve and a cylinder. When I add enough loop cuts to the cylinder and apply a Curve modifier, it takes a very strange form and no matter what deform axis I choose, it ...
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How to create connections and forks in streets
Hope you are all well. Newbie here.
I'm trying to create a little "neighborhood" and for better organization I started with the streets. For context, I researched several tutorials on the ...
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Bend/kink a long square like a ribbon
I have an request for assistance. It's a bit embarrassing as it might be for you a simple question but I am not a native English speaker so I don't know on what specific terms to search either. The ...
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Geo Nodes - Deform Object to Curve
I have found the setup to imitate the curve modifier with geometry nodes. And sofar it works great. I have however one problem. The curve modifier keeps "looping" the object around the curve,...
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How do I rotate curved text 90 degrees around the face of a coin?
I'm using Blender 4.2.0 (that just got released.) I am very new to blender.
I have extruded text and modified it to fit around a curve on the face of a cylinder (coin). No matter what I rotate though, ...
