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Stretch a curve

Stretch a curve - Alias Tutorial

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Stretch a curve

- Let's take a look at some techniques for stretching a curve or modifying a curve. So let's pick this curve down on the bottom, press H to hide and I'm going to flip it into this view here and let's light up the control points. Now we know from our previous tutorials that we can go straight into modifying this curve while using non-proportional scale. I can pick this endpoint here, I can grab additional points like that, and then I can go ahead and move. And depending on what my falloff is I can change the shape like this. So that is one way of doing this. So let's go ahead and try a different way. Now this technique's not used very often but it is nevertheless, I think, quite powerful on simple curves on more complex curves it can become a little bit cumbersome. So let's go to Modify, Stretch curve, let's look at the Options, and we're going to leave the Options as they are and let's go to select this entity. Now you'll notice at the very end we have these markers appear and I can…

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