Rendering/Shading CV/EP curves? how do I do that?

[terranea]

in maya, how do I get the cv curves i've drawn to show in renderings? i need them variable thickness as well

thanks,
/mirena

[mattdleonard]

I know of two ways that could achieve your goal...

First off is a cheat, Create a rectangle out of curves, and extrude it down your curve. Make the width the thickness you want your line and the height 0.001 or something very thin. Then add the desired shader to your extruded surface.

The second way is to purchase

[provide3d]

Some examples of the nurbsData Renderer:

[terranea]

guys,

i think the nurbsData tool is an excellent one, however (i downloaded and tried it already, all 14 examples were really cool) I am looking for a tool where the strokes are procedurally converted into tubes, more in line with paint effects, something that procedurally extrudes n-gones along tha cv's....hmm, maybe I can look harder at paint effects...

thanks,
/mirena

[mestela]

You might know this already, but you can attach pfx strokes to curves via

paint effects -> curve utilities -> attach brush to curves

You don't get all the neat cv/ep display options like in nurbsData, but if all you need is to display curves, this works nicely. You can then use

edit -> convert -> paintfx to polygons

if you really need physical geometry.