This isnt working like the tutorial

so im making an aloe vera plant. and im following this tutorial. https://youtu.be/iV53cBE3Wl8?t=453 on this time stamp the guy uses a curve modifier to make the thorns. in his video the cones are perfectly in shape.

but when i do it they stretch like crazy.

can anyone help?

@moony

I’m not that familiar with modelling in Blender using that method - but I have found you can run into issues if you have unapplied transforms on the model you are trying to manipulate using modifiers

To see if this is the case, select your spike model and go to Object–>Apply–>All Transforms

See if that helps.

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how would you do the pricks? i tried weight paint and geometry nodes like with the donut sprinkles but im still new so couldnt get it to work.

Select the curve, go into the curve settings and try to uncheck “radius”.

Alternatively, keep radius checked, select the curve and go into edit mode. Select any point of the curve and press alt+s to change the radius of the point (this allows the objects to be scaled differently in each part of the curve).

The spikes in the tutorial actually seem slightly deformed to my eyes. I think yours look different because you are modeling at a different scale.