How do i make a HELIX spline.
 

Hi there.
I did a keyword search for HELIX and it came up with one answer. MAYA 7 has a HELIX tool.
I have Maya 6.5.

Can someone please point me in the direction of a MEL script / Plugin / therapist to help me make a HELIX spline in MAYA 6.5?

I have made a HELIX spline but it was more of a case of 'connect the dots' of a extruded face with a Y offset and rotation (yeah, so i made a bolt! :bandit: )

thanks in advance
-geedie

hey i have no idea if this will work this is just wat maya 7 say in script editor

polyHelix -c 3 -h 5 -w 5 -r 0.4 -sa 8 -sco 50 -sc 0 -d 1 -ax 0 1 0 -tx 2 -ch 1;

copy paste it into script editor and do ctrl+enter to try it
i have no ideea about mel so it may work or may not (probly not)
ne way try if not soz for wasting ur time

no that wont work, because in Maya 7, the command polyHelix is a pre-scripted primitive. So if you try that in Maya 6.5 or 6, it will just give you a syntax error. And as for the other signs after the polyHelix command, they are not needed; they just tell the dimensions of the helix.

As for a script, why don't you just go to google.com and search for helix script in maya 6.5? Im sure you will find something.

hope that helps.

cYa LaTeR,
MaTt :alien:

HERES 1 OF HIGHEND3D

LINKY

HOPE THIS HELPS

Grabbin it now.
Thanks a heap for the link.

Don't know how many new commands / functions MAYA 7 will give me over 6.5. I will wait, perhaps until 7.5, and then get 7.

Awesome! I dl'ed that one too, and it works reall well. thx for posten it