"Bend" Distortion

JClements

Fredo6:

Do you have anything like this in your bag of tricks. It would take geometry and "bend" it.

This example isn't very good because I only rotated a few hidden sections, it should look like a smooth, non-segmented "trunk". Also this is only "bent" along the blue axis plane. Could a more complex distortion, for example, along the blue and then the green axis plane be done as you might see in the trunk of a palm tree?

Bend distortion.jpg

fredo6

I have this one in preparation, for a composite model (i.e. any drawing elements, groups, etc... with texture transfer, etc...) and a curve in 3D space.
Actually, the main difficulty is about managing some topological cases where it is necessary to remove and cut faces that are squizzed in the curvature.

3eighty

JC> Go to this link and pickup this FREE program..It has a Fantastic "bend" function..
http://www.cbmodelpro.com/forum.html ...(You may have to type it in as I can't seem to get links to work..)

Richard