• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Projecting an Extruded Map to sphere

  Posted by Ryan Kehn on May 12, 2010 at 8:30 pm

  Hey all,

  I’m stuck working on a stylized globe and need some suggestions. I have my sphere, and then I’ve imported a vector spline of a world map that I would like to extrude then wrap around the sphere. I’ve tried projecting the spline onto the sphere, but for some reason, the “sphere” option does nothing and the XY obviously doesn’t cut it.

  I was able to manipulate the spline using to wrap deformer to fit the sphere correctly, however when I apply the extrusion, the extrusion applies to the world z-axis so only one face of the sphere extrudes correctly.

  anybody have any tips?

  Thanks a bunch!
  Ryan

  Ryan Kehn
  Senior Media Designer
  Stadium Management Company, LLC
  Denver Broncos Football Club
  ry*******@*********fl.net

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 16 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  May 12, 2010 at 9:50 pm

  You should apply the wrap deformer to the extrude nurbs rather than the spline. So the heirarchy would be:

  Null Object
  -extrude nurbs
  -wrap deformer

  You’ll also want to set the extrude nurbs caps to “quadrangles” instead of ngons and check the “regular grid” box. Adjust the grid subdivision to make sure you have enough geometry to provide for smooth deformation.

  AdamT
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