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How to Make 1 mesh instance along IMM curve

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#1

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The feathers on the left of the image are what I get when I create an IMM curve brush. The single feather on the right is what I want to happen.

I am not looking to make a tripart brush. I want just a single copy of the mesh along the curve. The feather on the right was made with the bend curve deformer gizmo.

#2

Hello @Nikolai_Strelioff ,

This is not currently possible. Curve mode repeats meshes along regular curve intervals that are tied to the spacing and resolution of the curve.

I might suggest that you already have the best tool for the job with the Bend Curve deformer. You could also rig it with a zsphere chain if you want more control.

If all you want to do is add a simple curve deformation to the mesh, this can be easily done with Gizmo and a soft falloff (Focal Shift > -100), or a move brush with a large radius. If you’re after something more complicated, perhaps if you wanted to elaborate we could offer some better suggestions.

:slight_smile:

#3

I feel like this would be an easy and powerful thing to add into the software. Is there a way to request this as a feature? Zbrush can already bend each instance of a feather by cranking up the resolution in the brush modifiers tab.

Basically I want to define a mesh exactly how you do to create an IMM brush and then have the mesh be deformed along the curve drawn. Im working on a bird model and just had the idea to draw feathers along a curve to save time instead of inserting each mesh and then switching to the gizmo > bend curve to do each deformation. This method works well and get me to where I want to go, BUT if I’m trying to do a couple hundered feathers Im sure you could imagine how much time could be saved if I was able to just draw and line and have a feather be inserted along the middle of it!

Thanks for the quick reply :slight_smile:

#4

Easy and powerful are two different things, as are “possible” and “practical” :wink:

Sure! Feature requests can be submitted to Support by registered license holders. In this case though, consider it requested :slight_smile: . Yours is not the first such request.

Thank you!

#5

Cool beans! You guys are rockstars!