Tube Lines Renderer: How to modulate tube width?

[skinnytorus]

Hi, guys.
I thought I could modulate the width of the tubes generated by the Tube Lines Renderer over edges/splines by the point scale attribute or even displacement... Looks like it's not that easy - it's no real geometry and tricks like those with solidify path don't work. Any ideas how to pull this trick?

Thanks in advance,
Skinny

[lamogui]

Hum the point scale attribute should be working with Extrude / Solidify Path. Be sure to put the point scale function before the Solidify Path.

Or maybe I didn't understood well the problem ?

[skinnytorus]

Hi, @lamogui.
The Tube Lines I'm talking about is a renderer - not an operator.
Look:

tube1.compo (9.8 KB)

[lamogui]

Ah, to be honest this renderer should be deprecated since the new solidify path / extrude modifiers, because it use some special primitives (lines adjacencies) which are not supported by most of modifiers... (Thick Lines should also be redone because of that). I'm not sure we will add new features in tube lines renderer because of that. In theory it's possible to have the same behavior by putting a solidify path and a surface renderer. If not can you expose me your use case may be there is a bug somewhere. The only bugs i'm aware of is the usage of solidify path on 3D mesh which are not supported yet (that's why we leaved tube lines)

[skinnytorus]

Yep. Solidify Path doesn't work properly with 3d geometry. That's why the tube lines renderer is still alive. But I like it anyway - it's nice and simple. So... Updating the Solidify Path to work with meshes is the way to go then . But anyway, thanks for the explanation.