Engraving Help Please
by Darren Kunkel
on
Oct 31, 2009 at 3:53:13 pm
Hey Guys-
The question here PLEASE is in regards to ENGRAVING. My goal is to have a pipe (exhaust pipe in my case for a car) with engraved text on the surface. The pipe is implemented as a Circle Spline and Text Spline subordinate to a SWEEP NURBS object.
I've read up on and tried the following approaches:
-Bump Map
-Extruded Text with WRAP deformer
-Have yet to try Polygonal displacement
Would you please offer your advice on how you would approach this? Again, I'm attempting to engrave some text (4-5 letters in length) on the surface. They all look terrible. :)
Re: Engraving Help Please by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 31, 2009 at 5:04:36 pm
A bump map should work fine. Subpolygon displacement would work even better, but would be more cpu and memory intensive. What was the problem with your bump experiment?
Re: Engraving Help Please by Darren Kunkel on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:07:46 pm
Hi Adam-
As always, thanks for the quick response. BTW, I of course meant that I was using CIRCLE spline for sweeping...not a TEXT spline. Sorry about that.
If OK by you, I'll render out the pipe utilizing the bump map and attach to this thread. Thanks again
