Curve Rings
Rings of points that follow a path instead of stacking straight up.
leaning tower, pipe, tunnel, ribs, curved wall, bent stack- Category
- Emitters
- Outputs
- mesh
- Runs live in
- no target yet
A leaning tower, a pipe run, a tunnel lining, the ribs of a hull. It bends the arrangement rather than the parts, so bricks placed on it stay rigid and square while the structure they form leans.
That is the difference from bending the finished geometry, which would warp every brick along with it.
Inputs
| Socket | Type | Wiring |
|---|---|---|
| curve | geometry |
These settings are also output sockets, so another part can read the number instead of repeating it: columns, radius, radiusTop.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Available when | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | count | spacing | count | always | |
| Rings | number | 8 | Mode is count | |
| Spacing | number | 0.5 | Mode is spacing | |
| Columns | number | 12 | always | |
| Radius | number | 2 | always | |
| Radius End | number | 2 | always | |
| Stagger | checkbox | off | always | |
| Phase Units | columns | turns | degrees | columns | always | |
| Phase | number | 0 | Phase Units is columns | |
| Phase | number | 0 | Phase Units is turns | |
| Phase | number | 0 | Phase Units is degrees | |
| Orient | ring | curve | ring | always |
5 of these 12 parameters only apply in some settings. The Available when column says which.
Built with this node
Nothing in the manual is built around this node yet.
See also
- circlePointsWhen the stack rises straight rather than following a path.
- curveDeformWhen the parts themselves should bend, rather than just their arrangement.