Cut curves by polygon? Lock the first CV? Constrain the first CV on surface?

anyheart · Post by **anyheart** » 26 Feb 2019, 11:43

Questions about Curve：

Cut curves by polygon?

Lock the first CV?

Constrain the first CV on surface?

How to do ?

Hirazi Blue · Post by **Hirazi Blue** » 26 Feb 2019, 18:43

Could you please explain a little bit more what you are trying to achieve?
Keep in mind curves aren't something Softimage is particularly good at...

anyheart · Post by **anyheart** » 27 Feb 2019, 18:59

For shaping hairstyle, Proportional transform tool is good and efficiently；and then move the curves to maya for XGen or nHair

or any other way to do this？

Mathaeus · Post by **Mathaeus** » 27 Feb 2019, 19:54

ICE should be the tool for modifying a lot of subcurves at once, plus a few free scripts for merging a bunch of curves into one curve list, or converting the ICE strands into curves if needed. For cuts, if there's just one cut per curve, ICE could just reshape the curves at smaller length. First CV is UV zero from location on curve, if you keep the ''locking'' ICE tree in animation region, you'll be able to move everything using modeling tools, except ''locked'' CV. Also, it's able to ''auto-correct'', let's say to keep CVs at specific distance, or do not allow to go too close to mesh. While yeah, one should be familiar with ICE, to create a set of compounds. Don't believe there are already compounds around, created exactly for mentioned tasks.

rray · Post by **rray** » 28 Feb 2019, 00:30

I wrote a "Pin Points" some time ago it might work for fixing the base point in one position

https://www.si-community.com/forum/ ... nts#p59777

anyheart · Post by **anyheart** » 28 Feb 2019, 10:24

Thanks your for your advise，Mathaeus.

The "Pin Points" works good,Thanks rray.

Cut curves by polygon? Lock the first CV? Constrain the first CV on surface?

Cut curves by polygon? Lock the first CV? Constrain the first CV on surface?

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