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Dears, I've been trying to bend 3d objects in DBP for a few days. What I would like to do is, for instance, create a 3d box and bend it (with non-defined curves, but it can also use benzier or cubic curves). Think of creating a wall in a sim game and then curving it: that would be an example of a application of what I am trying to learn.

Of course, it would not be possible to do in DBP directly on the 3d box: we should first make part objects, link them and use memblocks. Them create a mesh. But I am very new to the programming with the 3d spacial objects. So, if anyone can help me with any tips, examples or pieces of code, I will be very thankfull to have a start.


Important: looking for usefull tips on that issue, I found an old thread in the forum that worth to be continued: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=17898&b=1

In that thread, it was asked by CompuWiz how to bend a cilinder with a benzier curve. Van B started with some very good ideas, but the conversation in the thread ended soon. I was wondering if we could use some of the insgiths and continue them here.

You should look into "bezier surfaces".

Also... You'd need to have a fine mesh, so a cube, instead of having 6 faces (2 tris per face = 12 tris), you'd have each face be subdivided a bunch, like this:


So... FIRST THING'S FIRST: Figure out how to make a subdivided cube like the above. Probably using the vertexdata and memblock mesh commands. I'm no good with them, otherwise I'd help you more.

Have a look here:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=181531&b=1