How do you use array mod to make elevated mesh specific way

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hey

I made this test mesh to show what I mean I don’t really know what words to use to describe what I mean, but basically like scaled elevated mesh so it’s gets smaller like in the picture. I think it is possible to do with array modifier, but I haven’t found a way and I also think you need to use empty to control the scale, but I can’t scale the array copies like I wan’t to like in the picture which has 4 separate meshes though only top 3 are all scaled separately and in order to even do that I first made the each “level” 3D from circle mesh then scaled it with Alt+S command and that kind of fuck up the Z location so I had to delete the “bottom” vertices then extrude again from top vertices that I left in order to get even Z height which is 0,1. I did this step 3 times for the the upper 3 meshes. I think there’s propably even easier way for, but I couldn’t Alt+S scale in 2 D so that’s why I did it like the way I did.

So if anybody here know how to manually and also using array to do the picture I would much appreciate it :slight_smile:

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is it not possible ?

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Array_Scaled_Steps.blend (613.6 KB)

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So just to be shure. I downloaded your file and look at it and seems I just needed to scale the empty in order to do what I was trying to do ? It works btw :slight_smile: thanks

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yes! It’s, empty is just an offseter for scale /rotate/move.

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btw for some reason if you change the curve bezier curve to circle it doesn’t work do you know why ? Seems kind of stupid to me :frowning: I was hoping to use this feature specifically in circles.