Well, someone had to ask. The answer is: sewage pipes. More at Autodesk’s MaxStation blog.
Why is there an Egg Spline in 3DS Max 2013?
Well, someone had to ask. The answer is: sewage pipes. More at Autodesk’s MaxStation blog.
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laughed my AssOff till death when they announced the egg spline shape,they’re justifying it because it’s really freakin weird thing they’ve done, you can make it very easily with a simple circle shape in no time
I guess it’s better for Autodesk to focus on fixing bugs more than the damned chickens
I think it’s more of an interop thing for revit and the sorts. But it is a little weird…
Months of research, design and programming went into the egg spline.
So when you convert this to a poly dose that mean you have EGG on you face?
This script could do that http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/cam-spline
Is there T-Splines in 2013?
So that finally settles the question what came first. Looking forward to the Chicken preset for Biped in 2014.
“Looking forward to the Chicken preset for Biped in 2014.”
Haha 🙂 the problem is that you can’t make an egg from this egg-spline (you have to cut it first and lathe etc). I am looking forward for the Egg Object in 2014, just below the Teapot.
Egg splines aren’t meant to be used for eggs … (but it doesn’t mean you can’t abuse them to create eggs).
They’re related to Civil View: in Civil 3D you can create egg shape pipe cross-sections. There are exacting diameter relationships to the nature of this specific shape and how they relate to egg-shaped piping for sewage.. Here’s a link:
http://www.meyer-polycrete.com/en/pipes/eggshapedpipes.php