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how to project holes evenly on a tube
Hello,
I’m trying to model the grille of a classic RCA DX-77 microphone.
At the moment I have managed to make a tube primitive and attach a material with a black circle in the alpha channel, I get the best results when using cylindrical projection, but where the texture wraps over the rounded top part, the holes ‘pinch’.
Does anyone have any ideas how to project the holes evenly across the surface of the tube so that it matches the original? I don’t HAVE to use materials, I would be happy to project little cylinders evenly across all the surface of the tube (like dimples of a golf ball), I just don’t know how to do it on the rounded part at the top AND the flat tube.
Take care,
Nick
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3 Replies
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one way to do it is with a stretched texture. Check out basic048.jpg (comes with the package or did I get it somewhere else?) it’s meant to be wrapped around a sphere (try it there just x tiling to 3-ish and y to 1). All it would need to wrap a cylinder would be to extend/duplicate the middle row of dots to fit the cylinder. I’d do an example but I’ve got no time at the moment, I’ll try tonight.
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Brian,
Thank you for replying and posting the file. I posted this question on the AE forum as well (a lot of C4d users hang out there), I ended up modeling the holes, you can check it out here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=876794
Take care,
Nick
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