SHUTTER GLASS BY PROJECTING CURVES

[blackchicken]

Hello Im trying just for fun and practice shutter peace of glass by projecting curves onto nurbs surface, but. I have little problem. I create pattern by lines project on nurbs grid but now I dont know how I could separate peaces. Trim not work of course, Is there any way how to do that? I need only separate peaces, then convert poly, extrude, connect partition and destroy all in dops :whistling: there is picture and sample scene. Thanks a lot guys and nice weekend.

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[Infernalspawn]

Hi,

what you can do, (havent had time to look at your scene)

convert your curves into curves, extrude your glas to give it some thickness

For each of your lines (not circles):

1) Extrude once -> to get a surface

2) Extrude once again to get some kind of "box"-thingy, this should be bigger than your piece of glas, you can then use to use the cookie-sop to do a boolean with the glas

For each of your circles:

1) extrude once

2) use divide-sop with the remove-shared-edges so you get the caps

3) merge results of step 1 & 2 and do a fuse-sop

4) use for with cookie sop for boolean magic

you have to do some huge itteration thing going there to get the individual pieces which should work with a foreach sop or some kind of feedback -loop (old-style with files & such).

cheers Seb

Edited July 21, 2009 by Infernalspawn

[TheUsualAlex]

If you don't care too much about the gap, and you just want to have fractures on a piece of plane, you can also try that good 'o Trace SOP too. (Though IMHO I think SESI could probably update it to make it work even better)

[blackchicken]

thanks a lot guys, Ill try it.....BC....