Cyberboy has a post with a little bit of Maya MEL script that will allow you to add the subCurve Attributes (usually available when creating a NURBS extrude) in Maya when doing a normal Polygon Extrude. Just the other day I was trying to animate an extrude in Maya, and while there are plenty of scripts around that will allow you to do this, for as often as I need to do this task, you often forget them, and I appreciate the simplicity in this one.

Check out the subCurveExtr Maya script for Using Polygon Extrude Along Curve in Maya While Adding Animatable SubCurve Attributes here.

8 comments

  1. Nick

    Hey, thanks for the video. I tried running the script though and the variable $extrudeCurveName is never defined so the script fails. Just thought I’d let you know if people are going to be using it. Thanks đŸ™‚

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    • lesterbanks

      Check the new link for the script download.

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  2. Nick

    Thanks! It works perfectly. I really appreciate it.

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  3. elay

    Hi is there is a way that the speed of the animated Shape along the curve is the same ?
    because i have a lot of curved part of my curve and the speed is very slow at the curved part and fast at the straight parts.
    I think it has something to to that it have something like a ” parametric lenght” Attribute.

    thanks in advance.

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  4. werte

    Thanks for that script! I searched a long time for it.
    @Elay: Just rebuild your curve, so that you have the same distance between you vertices and the speed of your anĂ­mated shape along the curve is in every part the same.

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  5. Alan

    Is there any reason for Cyberboy to publish the mel script as a .doc file? Is there just a text version available?

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  6. Pedro

    It seems a very good utility.
    But I can not make it work in Maya 2012.
    We would greatly appreciate you to tell me as I have to do to run the script.
    I’ve copied in folders:
    C:\Users\Cool Hand Luke\Documents\maya\scripts and
    C:\Users\Cool Hand Luke\Documents\maya\2012-x64\scripts
    and does not work when I write the name of the script (subcurveextr) in te script editor.
    Of course I have chosen the side of the polygon and the curve.
    I have not much experience with scripts and so it is possible you are doing something wrong.
    A greeting and thank you very much

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  7. di

    hi, it’s a very useful mel script, is it possible to extrude on a branching path? like a curve bifurcation?

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