lofting kerbs (curbs?) issue

[tricky]

When I loft a rectangle along a path to create a kerb (or curb - never have been sure how to spell it!), and map a bitmap on it using length repeat so that the length of each stone is, say, a meter long, I get distorted joints near anywhere that the loft object goes around a corner.

Any tips?

[RErender]

Adding more steps to the path will help, at the cost of more geometry and it is "curb"

[cocolas]

I've noticed that about lofts as well.....adding more segments only seems to aleviate the problem but not eliminate it....and there is a point where if you add too many segments, the start to interesect at sharp, say 90 or so degrees, then they create disrupted geometry...........
it seems like an issue, and I haven't found a complete fix for that either..


paul.

[tricky]

oh well. 3dsmax does it again!!!

[natty]

Would it help if you colapsed the mesh after the loft then map it ?

[tricky]

the thing is natty, i want to take advantage of linear mapping along its cross secetion, so collapsing would remove the advantages of a loft object