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Engraving Help Please
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 displacementWould 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. 🙂
Thanks in Advance to this Forum!!
-Darren
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2 Replies
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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?
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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
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