• Maxon Cinema 4D

  spline bezier

  Posted by Espinoza on November 10, 2006 at 6:54 pm

  if i want linear between points, but just one point in a spline be bezier, how is this done.

  i select the point, and select bezier in obj properties, but it makes the whole spline a bezier shape.

  Mylenium replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mylenium

  November 10, 2006 at 7:07 pm

  Break the tangents by holding down Shift while dragging the handles. This allows you to insert straight segemnets in Beziers.

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  Espinoza

  November 10, 2006 at 7:14 pm

  but basically there is no way to selectively make only one point bezier out of many straight ones.

  by break the tangents you mean just drag the handle to the point it is coming from?

  thanks
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  Mylenium

  November 10, 2006 at 9:29 pm

  [espinoza] “but basically there is no way to selectively make only one point bezier out of many straight ones.”

  That’s mathematically impossible. In that case you would have to have two separate curves blended together. Even in other programs such as Illustrator you have Beziers and straight elements are created by breaking tangents and setting their length to zero, which answers you second question. Ideally a straight segemnet should have no visible tangent at the incoming/ outgoing segemnets, but since that’s not practical, it’s usually good enough to line the tangents up with the segemnt itself and make it look straight.

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