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Curve on surface?
With the multitude of snap settings available in C4D can someone please guide through the best way of creating curves on surfaces. I’m trying to model descrete blood vessels (sweep nurbs) distributed over the surface of organs.
Once these surface curves exist, is it then possible to edit them while they maintain surface contact. I seem to remember from my brief excursion into Maya years ago that is was possible in that program.
Many thanks for help.
Alan
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Yeah, in Maya you make the object ‘live’ and draw your curve onto the surface. From that point the curve will move with that surface. For example a motion path for a sail boat in the ocean dipping and bobbing with the waves as it moves along the path.
In C4D you can project a curve. But I’m not up to snuff so the genius’ here will have some good ideas. I know with a little xpresso you can lock the positions of points to other points.
Chris Smith
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Hello Alan
I assume you are projecting retinal vessels onto a retina!
I prefer the project spline option to snapping (structure>edit splne>project>view). Make sure you have selected the model tool not the point tool when doing this. The position of your camera is important if you use this option.
You could repeat this process after moving the points around to bring them back to the surface of your object.Paul
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Thanks guys,
I might well give Maya another crack.
Paul, I catch up with you soon about this.
Alan
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There’s a plugin called “Spline Projector” (or something like that) that would make this pretty easy. https://www.tools4d.com
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Also, Mesh Deformer may do the trick: https://www.tarabella.it/c4d/
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