How to avoid weird distortions when bending with skeleton deformation?

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I created a rectangle with the spline tool, and attached it to a Skeleton Deformation layer. However, when bending it, the lines get all weird and it looks generally bad:

Any way to avoid this? Or, better yet, is there a way to set up a skeleton so that it bends the vectors themselves rather than treating it as a bitmap image? (yes, i know i can edit the vectors themselves, but obviously that’d take a lot longer than having some sort of skeleton set up)

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Your can use a distortion curve

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  1. i’m trying to animate an arm, so a skeleton would make more sense. yes, i could break it up into parts and use a normal skeleton, but i want to be able to bend it to make it more flexible

  2. curve warp still treats the object as a bitmap object

  3. it still distorts it

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Hi,
to fix problem with curve warp, turn off fast render on it in parameters panel.

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Don’t use curve wrap or skeleton distortion on vectors. Just use a normal skeleton.
See example.bend.sifz (2.03 KB)

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this worked, thanks for the help!
i initially thought each skeleton bone had to be attached to separate objects but yeah, they can be attached to specific nodes and control a single object that way.

i’ll be sure to keep this in mind too whenever i use the curve warp

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you have a tutorial of as use these bones