i am trying to understand the taper component and as an example taper a mesh box. the axis has its origin in the center of the box base and is pointing to worldY.
tapering should be one-directional and one-dimensional, therefore i switch on the “flat” option, which works so far. now the tapering is performed in the worldZ direction and i can´t find a possibility to switch this to worldY. am i missing something?
another issue is the increase of the taper. it seems to be some kind of logarithmic which gives the box an s-shaped top surface from the side view. i wish to have a linear increase, the box should look like a simple wedge.
any hints? thanks in advance!!
i find it hard to see what “infinite” exactly does here, especially as my axis goes through the whole object anyway.
so @developer(s): maybe some hint about changing the tapering increase shape when hovering over would be helpful.
there seem to be some strange things in the taper component.
the above example only works, if the deformed mesh resides in the world center (0,0,0)
i made some tests with a referenced mesh box which was moved outside the world center. then i used a bounding box and a point component to put the start of the taper axis where i think it should be and attached a worldXY-plane and a worldYZ-plane to this start point (the planes are visualised via circles). at last i generated axes from these two different planes and used these axes for the taper. allthough the two axes are in two different planes, they give the same result (THE TAPERING SHOULD BE VISIBLE IN TOP VIEW, top and bottom of the meshbox should stay parallel to worldXY, the two smaller sides should stay parallel to worldXZ)
another thing, that seems unlogical to me:
altering the length of the taper axis changes the tapering strength, even though “infinite” is set to true (mouseover says: “If true, the deformation happens throughout the geometry, even if the axis is shorter. If false, the deformation takes place only the length of the axis.”)
hmm, strange…
so as there is no parameter input for which plane to perform the taper in when switching to “flat”, how can you determin to do the flat taper to the “sides” and not to “top” direction ??
in 3dsmax for example i have one setting for taper axis and another one for the affected plane.
if anyone knows more about this I’d be happy to be taught
I have also tried to rotate each geometry 90° in every possible direction, nothing changes: it looks like the flattened side is predetermined depending solely and entirely on the axis-line orientation