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Tra nsf orm De gra de—
Causes the loft skin
to disappear during sub-object shape/path
transformations. For example, moving a vertex
on the path c auses the loft to disappear. When
off, you can see t he skin during these Sub-Object
transformations. Default=off.
Display group
Sk in—When on, displays a loft’s skin in a l l v iews
using any shading level and ignores the Skin In
Shaded setting. When off, displays only the loft
sub-objects. Default=on.
Sk in in Shaded—When on, displays a loft’s skin in
shaded views regardless of the Skin setting. When
off, skin display is controlled by the Skin sett ing.
Default=on.
TheloftobjectnowretainstheSkinandSkinIn
Shaded settings from one loft object to the next
one created.
Deformations
Select a Loft object. > Modify panel > Deformations
rollout
Deformation controls let you scale, twist, teeter,
bevel or fit shapes along the path. The inter face
for all deformations is a graph. Lines with control
points on the graph represent the deformations
along the path. Control points on the graphs can
bemovedoranimatedformodelingpurposesor
for various special effects.
Manually creating and placing shapes along the
path to produce these mo dels would be a difficult
task. Lofts solve this problem through the use
of deformation curves. The deformation curves
define changes in scale, twisting, teetering, and
beveling along the path.
Yougainaccesstoloftdeformationcurves
throughtheModifypanel’sDeformationsrollout.
DeformationsarenotavailableintheCreatepanel.
You must open the Modify panel after you’ve lofted
to access the Deformations rollout, which offers
the following features:
• Each deformation button displays its own
deformation dialog.
• You can display an y or all of the deformation
dialogs simultaneously.
• The button to the right of each deformation
buttonisatoggletoenableordisablethe
deformation’s effect.
Procedures
To a pply defor mations to a lof t:
1.
Select a loft object.
2. Go to the Modify panel and choose Loft from
the modifier stack display if it’s not already
displayed.
3. Expand the Deformations rollout.
4. Click the deformation that you want to use.
The window for the selected deformation
appears.
To toggl e the defor mat ion eff ect:
• Click Enable/Disable to the right of the
deformation buttons.
Interfa ce
Deform Scale (page 1–364)