Ira Krakow's Blender 2.5 Curve Modifier Tutorial

Blender's Curve Modifier is an object mode deformation modifier that uses a curve object to influence a bend or a curve in the modified mesh object. Thank you to Neal Hirsig at Tufts University (nhirsig@tufts.edu). The video that is the source of my video is at http://www.gryllus.net. I show how to deform a tube along a curve, and how to animate that deformation.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• blender
• 2.5
• 3d
• cg
• animation
• curve modifier
• modeling
• mesh
• tutorial
• video

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[ShanePlew]

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

[LenaS3DB]

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

[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 ?