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Uploaded by on Apr 22, 2010

This is a tutorial about 3D Max.

You'll learn how to use the Loft object to extrude a shape along a path. Then you'll project the path onto the uneven surface of a terrain. The whole process is non-distructive so that you can come back and change the layout of the path even after it hase been created.

Download the 3D Max scene here:
http://www.box.net/shared/5tz81ttrvx

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  • how can we use this to wrap a text around a surface in 3ds max ?

    Regards....

  • @Ron619productions: there is a better technique to do that. The modifier is called "path deform". Just search for it. There are tutorials here on how to use it.

  • very useful,

    how can do the same with other objects (not loft) for example a plane?

  • @munich84ss

    You can use this method for any type of object - not just loft. Simply select the object that you want to project (for example a cube) and then select the Confom compound object. There you have to specify the target object of the projection and that's it.

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  • This tut is missing something I follow it and the road is sideways not lined up flat with the displaced plane. Fubared.. incomplete tut

  • It's OK but you almost never need this kind of road on a terrain. Polygons of the road needs to be planar to terrain. It has to be carved into the terrain, but in the same time wrapped on. Can yoy resolve that tehnique?

  • Hi, when I "get shape", the shape is applied to the path sideways...how do i fix this?

  • Good job, if you use the shell modifier instead of the face extrue, you will not need the poly select.

  • Awesome tutorial - just what I was looking to do!!

  • Very nice tutorial, i'm using this technique for a model i'm drawing right now. just a quick question: Is there a way to conform the SPLINE first to the terrrain and then create the loft or pathdeform in second stance? The problem is that the width of the "road" adapts to the terrain as well, while it shouldn't, creating banking geometries at every bend.

  • Nice. Thanks

  • Hi,

    I tried to do this, but I couldn´t. I think it´s because I imported my roads from autocad. Can you help me?

    

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