How To: Use Spline Loft Actor , For Deforming Static Meshs

[Amir Hossein]

Hello Guys , I'm Here With Another How To: Tutorials .

You Can Use This For , Example : Moving Roots or Growing Tree Roots From Ground or ...

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So, Let's Get Started :

1. Go to Content Browser / Actor Classes / Uncategorized / Spline Actor / SplineLoftActor / SplineLoftActor Moveable , Select it and Somewhere in Your Level Right Click and Chose : Add SplineLoftActorMoveable Here .

2. Select S Icon In Your Level and Press F4 to go to The Properties. In Properties You Can See , ' Deform Mesh ' .

3. Go To Content Browser and Select Your Static Mesh ( Just Remember : HighPoly Mesh == Better Smoothing ) . and Come Back to your level and hit the Green Arrow of Deform Mesh , in your SplineLoftActor Properties .

4. Select S Icon In You Level and , Hold Alt Key On Your Keyboard And Use Move Tool(Gizmo) to Make Another Copy Of S Icon . NOW , As You See Your Mesh Is Going To Grow Up or Something Like That .


HELP Image : SplineLoftExample.jpg


TIP : You Can Use Matinee , To Moving Your SplineLoft Actors . Because You Select ; SplineLoftActor Moveable .

Why's :
Q : Why SplineLoftActor Didn't Move With Matinee .
A: Because You Need To Select SplineLoftActor Moveable In You Actor Classes.

Q: Why My Mesh Is So Ugly and Bad Shape .
A: Because You Need To Have a Static Mesh That Has Enough Polygon For Smoothing Between Lofts.

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If You Have Problem or Somethings Like That Feel Free To Ask .

Good Luck And God Bless

[joshua.fontany]

I've taken multiple college level UDK courses, and this was never mentioned in any of the layout or level design portions. That's too bad, really, because I suddenly see what many of the snippets of wiring or vines are for now..... (that and archtypes). The image really helped to clarify the technique, thanks for that!

[online|offworld]

The problem with spline loft actors is that they can't do collision (last I heard). Otherwise they'd be perfect for roads.

[Lexluthor1]

Hello Guys , I'm Here With Another How To: Tutorials .

You Can Use This For , Example : Moving Roots or Growing Tree Roots From Ground or ...

.................................................. ...................................

So, Let's Get Started :

1. Go to Content Browser / Actor Classes / Uncategorized / Spline Actor / SplineLoftActor / SplineLoftActor Moveable , Select it and Somewhere in Your Level Right Click and Chose : Add SplineLoftActorMoveable Here .

2. Select S Icon In Your Level and Press F4 to go to The Properties. In Properties You Can See , ' Deform Mesh ' .

3. Go To Content Browser and Select Your Static Mesh ( Just Remember : HighPoly Mesh == Better Smoothing ) . and Come Back to your level and hit the Green Arrow of Deform Mesh , in your SplineLoftActor Properties .

4. Select S Icon In You Level and , Hold Alt Key On Your Keyboard And Use Move Tool(Gizmo) to Make Another Copy Of S Icon . NOW , As You See Your Mesh Is Going To Grow Up or Something Like That .


HELP Image : SplineLoftExample.jpg


TIP : You Can Use Matinee , To Moving Your SplineLoft Actors . Because You Select ; SplineLoftActor Moveable .

Why's :
Q : Why SplineLoftActor Didn't Move With Matinee .
A: Because You Need To Select SplineLoftActor Moveable In You Actor Classes.

Q: Why My Mesh Is So Ugly and Bad Shape .
A: Because You Need To Have a Static Mesh That Has Enough Polygon For Smoothing Between Lofts.

.................................................. ........................

If You Have Problem or Somethings Like That Feel Free To Ask .

Good Luck And God Bless

Excellent tutorial

[seenooh]

The only useful application for splines in UDK is for matinee where you can make the camera follow that line (which is not a very fancy feature). It cannot be used for roads because you want to create branches, intersections, etc, and that tool can't do it. So bottomline, I find it almost worthless, and probably that's why most of UDK users never heard of it.

[Lexluthor1]

The only useful application for splines in UDK is for matinee where you can make the camera follow that line (which is not a very fancy feature). It cannot be used for roads because you want to create branches, intersections, etc, and that tool can't do it. So bottomline, I find it almost worthless, and probably that's why most of UDK users never heard of it.

I agree, in 3ds Max you have a whole host of uses with splines and spline lofting and that's what I originally thought the UDK version was....
After testing it last year I realised it was utterly useless!

[online|offworld]

Even if epic just made an option that let you convert a spline loft to a static mesh that would be enough, we could apply the collision stuff then (hint hint epic)

[Shinamori]

I have a rope I made in 3DS Max, it's pretty high poly. When I import in UDK, it looks fine, however, when I add it to a Spline Loft, it becomes flat.

The rope is at the top, the spline is directly below it. The rope is 16x1024. About 1728 poly. 96 segments and 18 sides.