had to make a topic about this one since I did not see it discussed yet. Many thanks to Benjamin Saunder making this a reality! this tool is superuseful when dealing with complex/curvature models and it has been one of the biggest requests to the developers over the last years.
@RickyBlender
go to the link in my post and download the ZIP file. In Blender you can “Install from File”, select the ZIP file and check the addon to be active. Now if you are in edit mode press CTRL + E (edge selection menu) and the two Edge flow options will be available at the bottum.
I made a quick gif to demonstrate the Edge Flow Curve function. This basically interpolates what the curve is and positions the out of place vertex to fit on that curve.
Think about car modeling (or anything curve). There is almost stretching when moving vertices around. With this tool it will become much easier to establish curvature of a model without painstakingly move vertices by hand. 3DSMax users all know the SET FLOW tool since its super useful!
Basically, say you have three vertices, you want the middle vertex to be “straighten”.
Visually imaging you drew a straight line from the first point to the last one.
Now all the middle vertex have to do is to line on that line.
Maybe give an option to let user decide where that middle vertex can slide along that line.
I’ll post this link here as well, just in case someone else needs this. There is an addon already that does this very efficiently, it’s part of the MiraTools collection.
hi there Bracer! that option is already available in this tool Just use the “set linear” option which is just below the regular “set curve”. Glad you love this tool as well.
No 0rAngE, you did NOT just move one point and all the other points along that straight line moves along with it !
This is BLACK MAGIC !
You Sir are a witch !
0rAngE if you are reading this, I could not get the tool that you are using, I can see the gimmicky tools like the draw clones and radial clones and all those fancy bullshit stuff on my T panel but that thing you do with the flattern everything into a line and moving on end and the rest follow I couldn’t find it even in edit mode.
thanks for this, but after a brief test out I couldn’t grasp how it works, take this quick test for example,
say I want to add in two more loops and smooth them out nicely
the tool does not work while selecting multiple edges, in fact it doesnt work on edge rings/loops. Maybe in the future it will! as of now the tool doesn’t understand if the user wants a “valley” or a “peak” (always uses Z is up), again maybe a future addition. The tool as is now is mostly useful for edge selections (not loops or rings)
Proplem come from vextex select. I use edge select and setflow 4-5 time and it’s works. Even in 3dsmax setflow need 3-4 click for multi edge loop. Hope that help