I have a very difficult time understanding how flow works.. I saw one example in a previous thread where something was to be morphed to a sphere and I still could not come to grips with how difficult it was to control.
Is there a simple tutorial somewhere that explains it better?

you have 2 video tutorials here;)
It's in French but very visual ;)
http://moiscript.weebly.com Videos/ "Enrobage d'Objet"

You will obtain different result due the curves or surfaces starts are sized or placed!

Hi niko,

> I have a very difficult time understanding how flow works.. I
> saw one example in a previous thread where something was to
> be morphed to a sphere and I still could not come to grips with
> how difficult it was to control.

Could you maybe post your current attempt where you found things difficult to control? That may then make it easier to give some suggestions for your particular situation.

One thing to be aware of is that the points where you pick on both the base surface and the target surface for Flow are significant - the objects will be rotated as needed such that the 2 places that you picked near to are aligned with one another.

So if you just pick at some random spot on each one it could be easy to not be in control of the rotation.

The places that you want to pick are described here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4795.10

Does that help make things more controllable for your particular case?


A few other posts that have some descriptions of Flow may be helpful:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4363.124
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4363.65
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4442.24


If you are still having difficulty controlling Flow for your model, then please post the model so I can take a look at what's going on in your particular case.

- Michael