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Z Twist Tip

16 Comments   Published by Bart on July 12th, 2007 in Tutorials

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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  1. 1 Anton Jul 12th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    THANK YOU!

  2. 2 Balista Jul 12th, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    :) This is very useful information

  3. 3 Apollos Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

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

  4. 4 madman Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    FINALLY!!!

  5. 5 AniCator Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
  6. 6 ROUBAL Jul 12th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    Amazing trick!

    Thank You Bassam !

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

  7. 7 Traven Jul 12th, 2007 at 10:11 pm

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

  8. 8 epat Jul 12th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

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

  9. 9 morris Jul 12th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

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

  10. 10 Matt Jul 13th, 2007 at 12:10 am

    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

  11. 11 pell Jul 13th, 2007 at 4:18 am

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

  12. 12 Apollos Jul 13th, 2007 at 5:13 am

    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

  13. 13 Ben Jul 13th, 2007 at 5:51 am

    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

  14. 14 rich Jul 13th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    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.

  15. 15 The_MorMor Jul 13th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Oh god! i came!

  16. 16 banor Jan 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm

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

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