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Blend curves

Blend curves - Alias Tutorial

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Blend curves

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- I'm going to show you another very powerful command in Alias, especially when you're creating curves, and that's called the blend curve. So let's go up to Curves, Blend Curve Toolbox and this opens up another dialog box and we're ready now to start creating some blend curves. So let's go into our top view, and I'm going to zoom in here like so and for the moment, let's just hide our image plane. So in this case, let's switch to the layer Work in Progress because that's where I'm going to be creating these blend curves. So, let's start with a very simple scenario, this right angle corner, and if I open up the option for Blend Curve Creation, double-click, you'll notice that it's going to create a degree 5 and it's going to default to G2 Continuity. Let's just go with those, Control and Alt and snap to this curve, I can go to the very end and the same here. And then select Nothing. So you'll notice that the blend curve itself is an associative element, in other words, if I pick these…

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