wrap deformer creating unexpected bulge

[Adam Trachtenberg]

It could be that you don’t have enough geometry to allow for a smooth deformation. Do you have regular grid turned on the extrude caps tab?

[Michael Banjoko]

Hi,

No, the ‘regular grid’ isn’t turned on. Strangely, it CAN’T be turned on as the check box isn’t responding to my clicks.

[Brian Jones]

the type has to be Quadrangles or Triangles not N-Gons for Regular Grid to work

[Michael Banjoko]

Thanks Brian,

With regular grids now activated the wrap still had its jaggedness. I however toyed with increasing width of regular grid from default 10cm to 500 and saw some improvement. Increasing the width beyond 500 isn’t making any more difference, as the curvature is still jagged. See attached screenshot: 2253_shieldwrapproblemregulargridon.png.zip

[Brian Jones]

it should get better as the grid size goes down not up. There is something odd about your spline. Try changing the spline Intermediate Points to Subdivided and set Maximum Length to the same value as the Regular Grid size. (make both be 10 or smaller)
It may (but shouldn’t) help to pull the Wrap out of the extrude and group it in a Null with the Extrude like this

+Null
-Wrap
+Extrude
-spline

if that doesn’t help I’d have to see the scene file.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

You may have to subdivide your spline manually, or use the add point tool to increase the point count where points are sparse. The regular grid option will subdivide the mesh inside, but it won’t increase the border resolution.

[Michael Banjoko]

Hi,

Ur efforts are really appreciated. Having gone thru Brian’s suggestions i’m yet to achieve the desired solution hence i’ve attached the file itself.

2254_mainlogo.c4d.zip

Could this have anything to do (though i doubt it) with the fact that the shield was extruded from an illustrator file? Might have to model the shield in autocad 2011 and exported to c4d as a .fbx file. I’m however convinced i’m better off working purely in c4d.

thanks guys

Michael

[Brian Jones]

you definitely have take the wrap out from being the child of the spline. Either by making it the second child of the extrude (not the best) or grouping the extrude and the wrap in a null. Also it helps to put the spline, extrude and wrap at the origin (or at least the same spot in space) so you don’t have to do too much gymnastics with the extrude settings to get it to look right, that’s not the problem with the spline it’s the grouping thing, just saying…

2262_2254mainlogo2.c4d.zip

[Michael Banjoko]

Dear Brian,

I’m ever so grateful. Your points are very well noted. Can’t blv what you’ve done came from the same illustrator spline i made.

Cheers

Michael