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General => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: danj on February 03, 2016, 08:56:35 PM

Title: Leaping Arches
Post by: danj on February 03, 2016, 08:56:35 PM

Based on my read of the XL/NC manual, it looks like maybe the morph effect is the best way to do leaping arches. Is this correct?   Or is there a better effect to use to do leaping arches?  Like maybe singlestrand?

Thanks!!!!

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: kevinp on February 03, 2016, 09:04:25 PM

Single strand works.

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: MrChristmas2000 on February 04, 2016, 06:16:01 AM

I have used both. Depends on what you want the effect to look like.

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: danj on February 04, 2016, 06:39:30 AM

Thanks for the replies!!   I'll play around with both of 'em.  Wasn't getting what I wanted from singlestrand, so was trying morph.

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: Gilrock on February 04, 2016, 07:24:42 AM

I'm sure there are 100 different opinions on what exactly a leaping arch effect looks like.  Its best to just experiment with SingleStrand and Morph and learn what they both can do.  SingleStrand has two different tabs so get familiar with the differences because they produce different effects.  It also probably makes a different whether you model the arches as a group or individual models.  My arches are not in a group so I'm not sure how an arch group reacts with the Morph effect.

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: danj on February 04, 2016, 10:31:13 AM

Thanks Gil.   I plan to play around with singlestrand & morph tonight...   I do have my arches grouped.  The "group all arches" seems to work differently than what I remember though.   I appreciate the reply!

Title: Re: Leaping Arches
Post by: Gilrock on February 04, 2016, 10:39:50 AM

I like leaving my arches as individual models which gives me full control over when each effect runs on an arch.  Then when using morphs you can align the head on each arch to start where the head ends on the previous one.  There are also times when I run 2 morphs starting in the center of each arch going both directions and I'm not sure how you would do that with all the arches grouped as one model.