Array Modifier on Object

[mondral]

Hello

I’ve been working on this little Robot for a while. The main detials are almost done. Now I wanted to add something like rivets around the head of the character, to give it a more mechanical look. 

I tried doing it with a curve -> I took a vertical Edgeloop – scaled it to 0 on the Y-axis – placed it in the middle – tried adding an Array + a Curve modifier to the rivet, but I got really weird results.

I also tried the 2 approaches to do so from the Course “Introduction to Hard Surface Modeling”. They are explained in the last Video “Modeling Rivets & Final Polish”, if you want to look them up.

It doesn’t matter what I try, I just can’t get my desired result.

This is the Character & also the Reference Image. It should look like this +/-

If anybody manages to solve the problem, I would be happy if he/she could explain how he/she managed to do it, thanks alot!

Have a nice day.

[Ronald Vermeij]

Youtube is your best friend in finding out how to exactly use and tweak the Array Modifier. Start here:
– https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+array+modifier

[Thibaut Bourbon]

Hey @mondral 

You need to make sure the origin of your rivets and your curves are matching:

You might also play with the curve modifier’s deformation axis. Hope that helps!

Cheers,

/Thibaut.

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