Ira Krakow's Blender 2.5 Curve Modifier Tutorial

[Lior420]

why didnt i get the bend at 3:45? the nurbs curve stayes inside the tube.

[Oippis]

Thank you for the tutorial, I was getting so frustrated with my wristwatch model's strap, but now I got it just perfect!

[heatoneGR]

i am modeling a car and i was trying to make its curves on bumpers by selecting the vertex one by one...thanks for the tut sir

[ImpaledSilhouette]

i get to where he makes the curve the modifier and then he doesn't even describe how, im stuck with a curve and a straight tube, WTF Let's make a tutorial where we are very veage on the most important step of it YAY

[LenaS3DB]

not a very good tutorial... he goes too fast for newbies and does not explain every step

[ShanePlew]

@LenaS3DB I found it quite easy to follow and I learned a lot from this tutorial. I don't see your problem.

[ERrnIE101]

what did you do at 3:46?

[TheKitsunebii]

Its wierd, i have the newest blender but mine looks completely different from this setup, alot simpler really and i dont have any of those menus or tabs by default , can you help ?

[ShanePlew]

@TheKitsunebii It's because you were, at the time of this post, most likely using 2.57 or something around that. He is using 2.5 second alpha which is much different. I'm using 2.59 and I still get all of those tabs as the default so unless you are opening a blend file that you had modified the setup then you should have the same as him. I would suggest reinstalling blender. And I do realize that me replying to this message could be completely pointless since this post is one month old.

[ninjaman633]

What did you between 3:46 and 3:47???

[ZacVrono]

i have a simple question... PLEASE ANSWER IT :)

ok i made a bridge and now i want to add curves to it to make it look like the golden gate, but i want it to remain 1 object, so how do i extrude in to a curve or something like that

[anuraj2201]

If i want to animate the tube from straight to circle(i.e. before modifier state to after modifier state)...how do i do that ??which type of keyframe will support that??...I hope you understand my question

[steven198807]

about 3:36 mins just to bend something that simple, maybe blender should change this. Time is everything and that takes too long if you get what i mean.

Being a max user all i need to do is add a bend modifier ,adjust the pivot pick ether x,y or z ,tell it the direction and angle. No need to add any second objects and move things around etc. Plus all of this is under 1 small panel.

I love blender but somethings just seem so wrong ,like the its taking the long way round to do a simple easy job.

[AbsentV0iD]

@steven198807 I understand what you mean but If you consider the price of Blender and Max -which is free:P Then is very fine. 2.5v is a great step forward than 2.4. For mey is like a Swiss knife, it has everything I need. I do have Max and Zbrush but I feel comfortable in Blender a lot more for some reason. I'm pretty sure that they will improve it on the way a lot more ;)

[niuarts]

Great feature Ira, thanks 4 sharing!!!

[JimmyonGER]

easier: instead of subdividing them, just hit ctrl+r and then scroll up

[irakrakow]

@JimmyonGER Absolutely. Loops are the cleanest way to add geometry. Thanks for the tip.

[lupine73]

Why did the tube mesh shift so far right after you applied the curve to it?

[irakrakow]

@lupine73 It's because I extended the curve to the right by adding control points by clicking the left mouse button while holding the CTRL key. The whole idea is that the curve controls the mesh.

[AbsentV0iD]

@irakrakow Thank you for your straight forward tutorial my friend:) Very nice.

[aermartin]

@lupine73 I think I can answer it. the Tube mesh, is aligned to the first control-point of the curve. it does that. you oughta think that it aligns to the center point of the mesh, to the curve. but it doesn't. it aligns the first vertex of the mesh, to the first control point.

important note, if the mesh center point is NOT at the exact same position as the curve center point, you get an annoying offset :D learned it myself the hardway. so always center them / align them together.

[MGNSMG]

Didn't go out of synch at all for me. I remember doing a tutorial once for a tire that used a curve to repeat a pattern onto...it's fun to work with, but I don't always first think about using a curve too often. Very interesting..

[richmeister4eva]

your video started to go out of sync if you want to be able to record videos with the audio in sync and keep good frames get an external hard drive nothing major any cheap one and tell the pc will to use it to save the recording there and this will ease up on the main hard drives work load thus giving you better frames per second and nice audio synchronicity

[irakrakow]

@richmeister4eva I write the script first. Then I record the audio in Audacity. Then I record the audio by playing back the audio file and actually doing the tutorial. That's how I learn. I didn't know how to use the Curve modifier until I did this tutorial.