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Animating profile along curve?

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  • 2026-01-25 at 9:27 am #86037
    lauser
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    Hi!

    I need to animate a profile along a curve and show the growth of it in Verge. I tried a lot but didn’t get it to work in Verge?
    Is there any easy way? Easier than with Shape Keys?

    Thanks!

    2026-01-25 at 5:28 pm #86038
    xeon
    Customer

    Unfortunately you can not animate a profile along a curve directly as it was created in Blender inside V3D. One method would be shapekeys. However as an alternative you could animate a a transparent mask along the axis of the shape to make it appear likes its animating.

    You can do this by taking the fully extended shape and animating a black and white texture over the dimension you want to animate.

    You will need to convert your curve object to a mesh….setup the UVs and then create a material. The following is a very simplified version of something to get you started.

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    2026-01-26 at 9:17 am #86043
    lauser
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    Hi Xeon,

    thank you very much for your response!
    I will try to make it work with the black and white mask.

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