{"id":41,"date":"2011-11-27T19:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T09:04:38","slug":"bend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\nThe Bend modifier lets you bend the current selection about a single axis, producing a uniform bend in an object’s geometry. You can control the angle and direction of the bend on any of three axes. You can also limit the bend to a section of the geometry.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThe power of the bend modifier really comes from playing with the limits and the gizmo position and offset values. For example a question was posted whether it was possible to roll up a carpet mesh using MegaFiers and the answer was yes by using bend and the offset values not only could a mesh be rolled up like a carpet it could be made to roll up on top of itself and even roll up in an untidy way. Also a very nice page turn can be done with a little scripting and a couple of bends moving over a mesh to do a dynamic page turn. It is strongly advised that you take the time to play with all the values on the bend modifier to get a feel for what can be done with a single mod.<\/p>\n

\n

Info<\/p>\nFor more complex bends you can always apply multiple bend modifiers to a mesh. There is also a World Space warp version of this modifier as well so you can have a region of you game where objects bend as they move towards the warp.\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bend Param Description<\/h3>\n

Angle<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sets the angle to bend from the vertical plane in degrees.<\/p>\n

Direction<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sets the direction of the bend relative to the horizontal plane in degrees.<\/p>\n

Axis<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Specifies the axis to be bent. X Y or Z<\/p>\n

DoRegion<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Limits the effect to a region of the mesh. The area of the effect will be shown by red and green boxes. This is useful for say just bending the top of a tree or lamp post.<\/p>\n

From<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lower boundary of the effect.<\/p>\n

To<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Upper boundary of the effect.<\/p>\n

Bend Class<\/h3>\n

[cc lang=”c#”]public class MegaBend : MegaModifier
\n{
\n public float\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0angle;
\n public float\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0dir;
\n public MegaAxis axis;
\n public bool\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 doRegion;
\n public float\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0from;
\n public float\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0to;
\n}[\/cc]<\/p>\n

Video Showing Bend being Used<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bend Tutorial<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bend modifier lets you bend the current selection about a single axis, producing a uniform bend in an object’s geometry. You can control the angle and direction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/4504"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.west-racing.com\/mf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}