I've looked at the Birail and Loft function, Birail generally uses 1 or more profile curves on 2 curves i.e rails, in this case I only have 1 "rail" so to speak, so I don't think the Birail functions would be of any use to me - at least as far as I've experimented. And the Loft function just generates a planar surface using a bunch of curves as profiles upon initialization of the function. What I'm trying to do is use a 3rd curve to drive a shape, and this shape was derived using 2 other different curves.
Specifically I guess this 3rd curve is supposed to manipulate the tangent(?) of the produced shaped between the 1st and 2nd curve. So if I made a cylinder with my 1st and 2nd curve, the 3rd curve would shape (or taper) this cylinder to a non cylindrical shape, which I could manipulate the shape of just by changing the 3rd curve's cvs.
And Animation sweep creates a tapered object, but it doesn't look like it can be easily and quickly deformed with the use of just 1 curve. Having to manage a bunch of curves that drive a single shape would defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to achieve.
The curve-to-tube function is almost exactly what I want to do, except it has no features at all to define the profile to a more specific shape.
