Follow Me Tool

SU has a fantastic tool called follow me, try the sequences below:



1. create a line to follow (base circle's arc)
* . create surface to draw polygons on ( i used triangles
* . draw polygons ( i used the arc tool on on vertical triangle surfaces above)



2. delete unwanted surfaces, and lines of polygons.
note: the polygon does not have to touch the line it will follow (the base circle's arc)




3. Select line A with selection tool (line that polygon will follow),
*. click on the polygon surface with follow me tool

B is start & stop lines (note in the above image how the remainder of the base circle arc is not yellow, selected)




with stop line on base circle




without stop line on base circle

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Using a Photo and Freehand Line tool:
from within SU, File > import image
use rotate tool to put image on vertical
use scale tool to stretch plume to width
(scale tool , then measure, scale again , measure again, until width of plume is at needed width) ,
use scale from corners to have height and length coincide while resizing image.
with measure tool, confirm height/width dimensions are good
center base of image (column of plume) at the origin



right click on image and "explode" , this will allow you to trace out the column and plume with line and arc tool ( or freehand tool on the image to create a follow me polygon




when you explode an image, it creates a texture, the texture will follow extruded polygons drawn on it.


delete the texture from the material list to remove it.

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