exarhos2003 Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 I got the final product I was looking for, but I would like to know why are the points twisting/rotating the way they are. I'm animating the arc angles in the circle sop so that the geometry opens up in two directions. That is what I want, but as you can see from the bottom two images its also twisting the points.The green arrows are good, the red are bad. In the bottom two images I changed the geometryso the twisting could be more visable. Any thoughts, christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallkien Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 Animate a carve on a torus intsead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exarhos2003 Posted November 1, 2003 Author Share Posted November 1, 2003 cool, thats works real nice.. also, I got it to work the other way also. It must have been a glich due to my sop order and creating the geometry in the correct plane. christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallkien Posted November 1, 2003 Share Posted November 1, 2003 I don't think its a glitch because I've wondered about the same thing too. Apparently it always twists when I use a sweep that arcs, If someone can answer why, I'm still interested btw, what did you do to sort out your problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exarhos2003 Posted November 2, 2003 Author Share Posted November 2, 2003 I rebuilt the network. What I am doing is, I have a curve that I am sweeping along the circle, to open up at one end. When I rebuilt the network, I made my curve in the xy plane and the circle in the xz plane. For some reason this worked. Hopefully it doesnt happen again. Also, rather than use sweep sop, i went to particles and attached the curve to the points, this way i have so much more control for some of the effects i want to due. Im also trying to control the alpha based on the PR or point position, I may be back for help christopher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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