Simple Detail Around A Corner

[KateC]

Quick question. I've been trying to create some simple trim around the curve of a building, but outside of manually copying, pasting and rotating each shape*, I'm not sure how to best approach this. I know there has to be a smarter/easier way of doing it, but I haven't had a whole lot of luck up to this point. Also, if this has been mentioned before just point me in the right direction.

* Go ahead, you'd be right to laugh. :)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4369222858_4aa9af31b8_o.jpg

[ZacD]

duplicate along curve, deform by curve, extrude it from a cylinder and delete the extra geometry, there's sooo many options.

[Prophecies]

Bend Modifier? Array tool? Like it has been said above, alot of options! It might help to specify which program you are using though!

Hope this helped! :)

[KateC]

Oops! Maya, my bad.

My course focuses a lot on digital animation, but not really the ins and outs of environment modeling tricks, so I keep getting stuck on some of the small, 'you should know this by now' details.

I'll look into some of those a little further. Thanks!

[Prophecies]

Ahh, the tricks I mentioned are for Max. I don't know if they apply in maya, but you can try!

[divi]

extrude it from a cylinder once and copy+rotate it around the pivot.

[Marine]

slipgatecentral did a short tutorial on something like this, should be on his youtube or vimeo account

[KateC]

The cylinder extrusion worked perfectly, thanks! I can't even believe I didn't consider that the first time around.

Also, thanks Marine. I'll hunt around on both sites later tonight and check it out. Then my shame will be complete.

[CheeseOnToast]

Although your problem was quite easy to solve this time, you might want to grab the excellent script here :

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/misc/c/extended-duplicate-options

It's great for duplicating objects around complex curves. See also built-in Maya stuff like motion paths and flow paths for more of this kind of thing (just check the manual).