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31 questions linked to/from Wrap curve around sphere
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Creating a 3D earth (sphere) with separate polygons for each country - can't turn vector of countries into sphere [duplicate]
I am new to blender and am looking for a way to use a vector or a shapefile file with all the countries to create a 3D earth with all the countries separated into separate polygons.
I can Import the ...
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How to animate morphing a rectangular plane into a sphere
How to make a grid-to-sphere animation like this?
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How to cut an object along a curve?
I want to divide this model into separate pieces to prepare it for the next stage of a project. The divide needs to be made down a curved line (which I hope is visible in picture).
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I figured out ...
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What is the best way to unwrap a sphere?
After reading How to get perfect UV sphere Mercator projection?
It seems that there is no perfect solution for getting rid of the stretch at the poles of UV spheres.
According to What is the ...
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Morph targets: A sphere shape turning into a cylindrical unwrapped sphere shape
I'd like to do an animation where a globe will unwrap it's texture.
Go from this
to this
, but in 3D space, so it will look exactly as its unwrapped form.
The only methods I have on mind are ...
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Applying a Simple Cylindrical Projection onto a Object
Question: I have a wavefront object that I have imported into blender, and a simple cylindrical projection that I am trying to apply to it. The cylindrical projection is mapped around the prime ...
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Need Technique for Projecting Countries onto the Earth
I've got a project I'm on where I must project some shapefile generated country surfaces onto a globe. Here's where I am currently...
Now, the shapefiles I used have excellent vertex resolution about ...
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need help with deforming a mesh over another mesh
say you have sphere and plane meshes and you want to take the plane and slide it to the sphere without it clipping through but you also need it to deform around the sphere. is there a way to do this?
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Hiding Bezier curve handles
I use control right click to make shapes with bezier curves and the handles get in the way. Is there a way to hide the handles.
I've looked and I can not find a way.
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Project Curve on Surface
I would like to know how to project a bezier curve onto an extruded bezier curve.
as an example in Autodesk Maya is:
Create a curve-on-surface
Is there a way to do this in Blender 2.79b or the soon ...
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How to wrap text on top of an object
I have a pencil here I modeled and I want to wrap some text around it. I have been trying this method: What's the simplest way to wrap extruded text around a cylinder? but this is not working for ...
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How do I turn an imported SVG into a sphere?
I am very new to blender and am making some models for use with Three.js.
The model I have created is a logo, as show below. I am quite happy with this but was curious if I could take it further.
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Bending curve/object around another object
I'm trying to make some 3d fx and I imported my basic svg file. Now I want to wrap it around the top surface of the object but I don't know how. Can somebody help me accomplish this?
Here's how I ...
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How to wrap on the sphere like ornamental design [duplicate]
I have a default sphere and created ornamental design. I want to coil or wrap on the sphere. I tried shrinkwrap modifier but it did not work. Is there any other i can coil or wrap the design on the ...
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3D Earth using curve to mesh
I'm trying to make a globe model for earth using fairly accurate projections. I've been able to convert the SVG into mesh, then into a sphere using this guide with Simple Deforms. However, since the ...
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