Hello!
Just wanted to say hi, introduce myself, thank the developer for an incredible piece of software and also see if there was some advice on a modeling issue I'm trying to work through.
I came from polygon modeling background and started using MOI last month ( purchased the second my trial expired ) - MOI3D has made it so that I actually enjoy the process of modeling again. We have a small film-making and VFX studio in Southern California, my partner uses Rhino and I would use C4D/Modo, both great programs for what they do but I was always a bit envious of my partners ability to rapidly create complex models in Rhino. I tried it out but found I didn't really enjoy using the software. Then I discovered MOI3D and it's been love at first sight.
I am struggling with how to create a certain shape and I am sure it's probably trivial for many of you, and more to do with my not understanding a certain tools workflow.
Essentially I am making a span of flexible tubing that has some surface detail - this tube needs to follow a free form curve - for instance perhaps a helix that's been joined with free-forms at both ends. I have attached two screenshots of the model in progress. The tube is just to the right of the respirator. This is not the actual length of the span but a small section of what the longer span of tubing would look like.
In C4D for instance I would make the length of tubing then do a spline wrap deformation on whatever spline curve I had created and the polygons would wrap to that spline. I think in MOI3D it might be the flow tool but I have yet to get it to work.
Thank you for your help!
Jordan Wright
www.insidejobfilms.com |
