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Create curves on a surface

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Create curves on a surface

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- In the last lesson we saw how to duplicate surface curves to create curves that match a surface. Another way to do this, is to draw the curves directly on the surface. And these are called curves on surface. So, let's create a simple NURBs object and show you how that works. So I'm going to create a NURBS plane. So I'm going to be goin' to create, NURBS primitive, plane, and I'm just going to go ahead and drag out a plane. And I'm actually going to turn off the grid so we can see this. And then in my inputs here, I'm going to go ahead and change my patches to say three and three. So that gives me just a little bit more detail. Now this is just a NURBS patch and if I wanted to I could take my control vertices and move them around, reshape it, do whatever I want. But a NURBS patch is basically a 2D object that's been deformed in 3D. So, instead of X and Y coordinates, we have U and V. And now we can use those to draw curves along the U and V axis that stick to the surface. Now the way…

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