tubing using curves

[rouhollah]

hello all. i posted this issue in ice thread as well. i going to do some tubing for my robot as you see in snapshots. because there is a lots of tubing manually the process is really painful for me. i looking for a method to create tubing meshes using curves, maybe the ice strand is the solution but i don't know how. please share with me any idea about this with a brief step by step is it's posible. any helps are appreciated. cheers

[EricTRocks]

Created a short video to show you how to rig a polymesh tube. While strands may be one approach if you have to end up creating actually geometry and placing by hand for maximum control this simple rig may help.

[Ahmidou]

and then you can use this:
http://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2009/02/ ... nd-update/

Mod Edit: Use URL Tags Ahmidou! - ET

[Maximus]

Thanks a lot Eric for this, much apreciated

[rouhollah]

Created a short video to show you how to rig a polymesh tube. While strands may be one approach if you have to end up creating actually geometry and placing by hand for maximum control this simple rig may help.

thank you Eric, that was very helpfull, i'll use this in my project for sure

[Lord Futzi Voldemort]

Inspired by Erics setup I played around a bit, because I need something like that myself, an came up with this:

Tuberig.zip

It's got a little ICE compound for deformation along the curve. Far from being perfect but suitable for my needs.

[Leo]

If you have a ton of curves this would probably be very easily solved with LK Lightning.

Emit a point from the base of the curves.
Emit LKLStrands from that point.
Put in a curve controller with a strong tangent strength.
Mesh the LKLStrands and freeze.
Or don't. It would update dynamically.

But LKL isn't free and this is probably overkill.