Curve Tool

Short Description

An interactive tool for drawing and editing curves and splines.

Description

The Curve Tool is the best interactive curve/spline drawer out there. It allows users to create and manipulate curves with various options and settings, optimizing the drawing experience for precision and creativity.

Properties

Base Properties

• Draw Mode: Choose the way you draw curves

• Filter Objects: Provide scene objects to use as filter. Use the filter type below to define how to treat those objects.

• Filter Mode: You can decide to 'draw only' on certain objects, or to 'draw everywhere except' some specific objects by changing the filter type.

• Curve Degree: Select the curve degree for the next or the active curve

• Initial Smooth: Default smooth value for the created freeform curves

• Min Spacing: Minimum pixel distance used for creating the curve

• Hit Offset: Set a default offset to move the curves from the hit meshes

• Create Mesh: A boolean indicating whether to create a mesh from the curves

• Start Drawing: Click here to enter the draw context

Editing

• Edit Strength: Multiplier used with MMB actions to influence the curves more significantly.

• Avoid Smooth Intersections: When curves are drawn on mesh, smoothing might generate intersections. With this option on, the smoothed curves will avoid going inside meshes.

Mesh Options

• Mesh Initial Radius: Initial radius used for the pipe mesh

• Mesh Initial Max Radius: Initial max radius used for the mesh, to create random variations if different from the other one.

• Radius Affects Offset: A boolean indicating whether the radius affects the offset of the mesh.

• Mesh On Exit: Pick the behavior for the created meshes after you exit the drawing context.