A bit of a pickle...

[F747fly]

So, while modeling the sky train layout for EDDL I thought I'd just make standard beems (the rail) and bend those. However as we know bending (with the bending in the simple deformer modifier) can only be done with an object over the X-axis.. Coninsedence has it that that's not the direction the model is in (see .img 1). So how am I going to bend this... I thought of two ways but can't quit figure out the details for either... One would be to cut the beems with Ctrl+R and then move and rotate, although that won't give a good result. Or get the beem on the X-axis and move from there, however also here I won't get the correct angle....

anybody have any ideas?

.img 1:

.img 2:

 

[Dutcheeseblend]

You want the selected beams to bend?

Right! Try this tut: http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/create-an-underground-subway-scene-part-1-of-2/

I don't have time now to explain further, but the tut should do it for you. Have luck!

Daan

 

[F747fly]

You want the selected beams to bend?

Right! Try this tut: http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/create-an-underground-subway-scene-part-1-of-2/

I don't have time now to explain further, but the tut should do it for you. Have luck!

Daan

Thanks Daan that's perfect... Feel kinda dumb I was thinking is just the bending mode and didn't see if there was any other tool that would do the trick... Thanks!

I'm going to try it!