Quote - Ooh - this is grand - wanna play... How does one define the path to extrude along?

The path is defined by placing marker points.  A spline path is then generated to fit those points.

The spline handling is done by a nice Python package found here:

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/splines.py

(Okay, can I say that I HATE HATE HATE these new reply editor boxes?  It won't let me add a link to the URL.  :cursing:)

So far the path handling seems pretty flexible.  You have to place multiple markers close together to get a sharp transition, but it's possible.  None of the tubes pictured above used more than seven marker points.

Anyway, so far, so good....  :unsure:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.