• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Illustrator Compound Paths and Sweep Nurbs

  Posted by Ryan Kehn on November 10, 2011 at 8:23 pm

  Hello Everybody!

  I’ve got a good one for you.

  I’ve got a compound spline from illustrator that i’m running a sweep nurbs on. I’m trying to create a small tree branch for a snowman arm. My issue is that the compound path still comes into C4D as 2 paths, and even after connecting and deleting the splines in cinema, the point priority remains as if there were two separate splines, resulting in the sweep nurbs object looking at 2 first vertex points when i want the entire spline to act as one.

  I’d like the sweep nurbs to gradually taper off towards the end of the spline like a tree branch would, through the breakout/finger branches as well. With the multiple “first vertex” though, the sweep nurbes treats my spline as if it were two different objects.

  does that make sense?

  any thoughts?

  -Ryan

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

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  November 11, 2011 at 12:00 am

  In Cinema you can only have a max of two spline segments connected at a single point, so you can’t do a truly continuous branching sweep.

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