The frame above is from a video we are producing in the studio. We had a problem with extruding a profile along Hair curves. We wanted the geometry to be pointed so we extruded a profile with the scale parameter set to 0. It seems to also scale the transform nodes to 0… so everything gets a little wacky when things are animated . This script creates a duplicate of the selected profile and then places it at the base of the curve for extrusion. Its a little more robust than a loop that extrudes a profile along a curve and it allows you to input the scale at the end of the extrusion, but it does create a profile for every curve so it is a good idea to group your original profile so they are easy to select in the final hour after 4 coffees when you decide they need to be 98.6% smaller.
Source: extrudeScale.mel
