topic Re: edit poly extrude along spline in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

edit poly extrude along spline

grue1970 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:50:42 GMT

hello. please see attached. the extrude polygon along spline is not working as expected.

1st image shows extrude with the spline's first vertex on the top left of the image.

2nd image shows with the spline's first vertex bottom right.

the curved pink object was created with an arc in the front viewport and extruded back in the y axis. the arc has an edit spline to "close" it, then extruded, then edit poly to chamfer the edges, then edit poly to connect edges and finally another edit poly to extrude along spline.

the spline to extrude along, was also created in the front viewport

thanks.

Re: edit poly extrude along spline

RGhost77 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 09:22:32 GMT

Hm, I have that's strange results too (max 2021.3) ... I'm not sure bug it is or problem in modifier local space

Re: edit poly extrude along spline

leeminardi — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 14:51:05 GMT

Would using a sweep modifier on the spline that references the polygon as a custom shape achieve what you want?

Re: edit poly extrude along spline

oliver — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:29:07 GMT

I tried to solve this questions: everything I tried (detaching the polygons, aligning pivots, rotating the curve's pivot, ...) led to the same wrong result. This tool indeed needs a rewrite of some sort!