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Phone Cord with Spline Wrap

Hair, MoGraph - by: base80
February 17th, 2007

Here is a method to make phone cords like this one.

phone-cord

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Lets start with the cord.
It is a Circle and a Helix in a SweepNurb.
helix
The Helix is set to make a 7200 degree rotation.

helix-settings

Now we want to make the cord follow a path.
Put the SweepNurb in a Null Object.
Now add a Spline Wrap deformer from the MoGraph menu in the same Null object.
And we need a spline as a path for the deformation.

hierarchy

Drag the Spline(path) into the Spline Wrap attributes

spline-warp

Voila! That does the trick.
The MoGraph Spline Wrap can do much more than this. It can deform any object on any spline and off course the spline can be of any shape.
flower-warp

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10 response(s) to Phone Cord with Spline Wrap

  1. norm [Visitor] says:
    2007-02-18 @ 16:29

    Once again another great useful tut. Thanks

  2. anony [Visitor] says:
    2007-02-23 @ 18:00

    Thanks

  3. Kai [Visitor] @ http://kaithestuffguy.com says:
    2007-02-28 @ 22:19

    nice tutorial, a very cool idea, never though of using spline wrap with a helix like that. wouldn't it be more efficient though to spline wrap the helix spline directly rather than the whole sweep nurbs. that way only the few points int he spline are being deformed instead of all the internal points of the weep object?

  4. base80 [Member] says:
    2007-02-28 @ 23:19

    You are probably quite right. I could have done that and have less lag.
    However, as usual there are many ways tot do stuff.

  5. RafyKoby [Visitor] says:
    2007-03-08 @ 17:22

    Big THX this was exactly what i`m looking for.
    Seems like mograph has a use after all^^

  6. Navarro [Visitor] says:
    2007-11-01 @ 19:02

    Fun example! Have you thought about posting project files for your tutes? They would only be a few K zipped.

  7. base80 [Member] says:
    2007-11-02 @ 20:48

    Navarro ,thanks for all the comments. I do not want to post the files for the simple reason that you learn better by doing the tutorials yourself. And because the tutorials are multi purpose, they help people solve completely different things than the examples I use.
    Nevertheless I am considering a payed download thing in the future.

  8. beatnicker [Visitor] says:
    2007-11-14 @ 10:39

    Thx for this nice tutorial.
    I like this orange material but unfortunately i can't reproduce it. ;)

  9. anz1066 [Visitor] says:
    2007-11-23 @ 04:00

    thanks, i got it right once i realised the plane was wrong

  10. Leah [Visitor] @ http://leahzero.deviantart.com/ says:
    2008-05-21 @ 05:51

    Thanks a million! Was having trouble grasping how Spline Wrap works, but this made it super simple. Awesome site.

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