Don Heyse Wrote:The standard lsynth rope (string) is a bit of a hack so I wouldn't necessarily try to duplicate it for your extrusion method. A better looking rope can be made by starting with 3 co-planar touching circles, and extruding with a twist. Go here and check out the "cordage torsade" picture in section 12a.
http://jc-tchang.philohome.com/manuel/Lsynth3.htm
If I get patterned donor shapes working, such a shape should be possible, could take awhile though. I have to get basic path editing and normal LSynth like 'sweeping' going first.
Don Heyse Wrote:Say, would it be possible to re-use any of the lsynth meta commands to make it easier for certain lazy programmers to duplicate the extrusion functionality in a standalone tool, by enhancing the existing lsynth code?
I'll will try to support those metas were possible or at least offer an import and or export setup at some point. Biggest difference being my approach will be submodel based, and LSynth meta's are weaved in the model it self.