Tube Tool — Additional Cap Shapes (Spherical, Rounded, Pointed)

[artgilo]

Right now the Tube tool only has a simple on/off “Cap” toggle, but no way to change the shape of the caps.

It would be extremely useful to have a few basic cap-shape presets, like:

• Spherical / rounded

• Pointed / cone-like

• Flat (current)

These would make the Tube tool much more flexible for things like limbs, horns, pipes, stylized shapes, etc., without having to manually sculpt the ends every time.

Would be great if this could be added at some point. Thanks!

[RogerRoger]

Unless/until this is added, you can adjust the tube topology to get rounded/spherical and cone/point shapes:

• rounded/spherical - turn Tube/Topology > Division X down (4 worked for me with the size I was making) and Post Subdivision up (5 worked for me with the size I was making)
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• Cone/point - change the Radius to to the option with (3) line/dots enabled. The tube profiles will be editable per node and you can make the point on the last node.
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You can also use the above methods to get a hybrid of the two, creating a cone with a rounded point.

[artgilo]

Thanks man. Today I found a comment below some YT video describing this same technique. It does the job in the meantime, indeed.

[mestela]

Spherical ends would still be great though…. +1 on the request!