Create Spiral

Create Spiral

Author: Dirk Bialluch
Copyright 1998-2009, Lightstorm3D

Create Spiral V3.0
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Description

This script creates a nurbs spiral with full construction history along a fixed axis or user defined nurbs curve. The functionality is based on Maya's nurbs extrude tool. Thus, you may encounter flipping when animating the base curve's start vertices.

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Sample Movie

Function summary

  • profile radius & scale
  • spiral radius & scale
  • length (using fixed axis)
  • spiral rotation
  • turns
  • spiral surface spans
  • fixed XYZ axis or user defined curve
  • rebuild base path curve
  • construction history controls on spiral transform node

Usage

Command: lsCreateSpiral

User Interface Screenshots
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Creation UI

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