Z Twist Tip

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An UGLY Z-Twist!If you’ve ever worked with curves and extrusion objects, you’ve probably run into the ‘Z Twist’ problem. Bassam Kurdali has found a simple way to fix this.

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    • http://spacewarp.deviantart.com Anton

      THANK YOU!

    • http://blender3d.org.ua Balista

      :) This is very useful information

    • http://www.blenderunderground.com Apollos

      I never would have thought of this. I’m not sure how it works, but I just tried it and it works great.

    • http://niel.seyanim.com madman

      FINALLY!!!

    • http://anicator.awardspace.com AniCator
    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Amazing trick!

      Thank You Bassam !

      The most impressive is that it seems to solve several twists with only one hook…

    • Traven

      i work a lot with the bezier curves, so thanks you for this very useful trick

    • http://advanced-lemon.blogspot.com/ epat

      That looks pretty useful – and so ingenious!
      ~epat. ;)

    • morris

      well, it worked. very cool and confusing. I’ll have to think about it for a few minutes…. thanks

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      I hope Ben Batt finds inspiration to finish his project to fix this bug once and for all :) http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa206/artificer_blender/curvenormals01.png

    • pell

      Nice job, Bassam. Until the curve bug is fixed, this looks like a promising workaround. I hope it works as well for animation.

    • http://www.blenderunderground.com Apollos

      Matt, yes bug fixes are great and all, but then what happens to the nifty, esoteric tricks that you can only learn about by reading Blender Nation? =D

    • Ben

      Hey, that’s pretty nifty.
      And yes, Matt, I am planning to eventually finish the curve normal fix :-) I’ll hopefully get a chance to work on it this weekend.

      Ben

    • rich

      this is a good trick but for curves that go in all directions there is no good position! Have at it Ben, we’ll thank you for letting us leave this chapter out of the “Blender Work-a-rounds” manual.

    • The_MorMor

      Oh god! i came!

    • banor

      Hmmm, I’ll have to try it out sometime… thanks!