Post by fergdawg on Jun 28, 2024 12:17:43 GMT -5
Hi all. I've struggled (as many have I'm sure) with making realistic curved fences that move around borders realistically. Yesterday, I stumbled upon the master trick that makes them perfect: Mirror handles.
The issue with fences is that you can't smooth them out witb the "Smooth spline" tool like you can with surfaces etc, so they end up looking jagged in areas. Also, the curvature, where it is automatically inserted, is often between posts and looks super unrealistic. My first fix was to move the points to the posts, but even this produces an unreasonable amount of jaggedness in the end result.
Mirror handles allows you to do this. Simply put, it aligns the point with the handles, and you can adjust them to move the curvature around fairways, water hazards, etc. It's tedious, but you can select each point in the spline and follow the blue line curvature to make the fence curve evenly throughout. Using this one tool I made my fences look 98 percent perfect in every case (2% for some slope adjustment needed to level things out).
I just thought I'd share this trick, as I've never seen anyone talk about it and it's a total game changer for fences and probably any other splines where you can't smooth them automatically. Has anyone else experimented with this tool?
Cheerio!
The issue with fences is that you can't smooth them out witb the "Smooth spline" tool like you can with surfaces etc, so they end up looking jagged in areas. Also, the curvature, where it is automatically inserted, is often between posts and looks super unrealistic. My first fix was to move the points to the posts, but even this produces an unreasonable amount of jaggedness in the end result.
Mirror handles allows you to do this. Simply put, it aligns the point with the handles, and you can adjust them to move the curvature around fairways, water hazards, etc. It's tedious, but you can select each point in the spline and follow the blue line curvature to make the fence curve evenly throughout. Using this one tool I made my fences look 98 percent perfect in every case (2% for some slope adjustment needed to level things out).
I just thought I'd share this trick, as I've never seen anyone talk about it and it's a total game changer for fences and probably any other splines where you can't smooth them automatically. Has anyone else experimented with this tool?
Cheerio!
