Tool for creating complex paths?

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Published on 2011-11-16T11:02:03Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 18:16 UTC
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I want to create some fairly complex predefined paths for my AI sprites to follow.

I'll need to use curves, splines etc to get the effect I want.

Is there a drawing tool out there that will allow me to draw such curves, "mesh" them by placing lots of points along them at some defined density and then output the coordinates of all of those points for me?

I could write this tool myself but hopefully one of the drawing packages can do this?

Cheers!

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