displacement-test

[andre]

inspired by the great pineapple-material on vray-materials.de, i came up with this chain:



its not perfect, but....
here´s a screenshot of the underlying mesh:



displacementmap looks like this:


should be easy to animate too. just offset the mapping.

andre

[tammo]

nice!
how are the holes created?
with the waterlevel setting in the modifier?

[suurland]

hehe.. very nice..

Although i would just model it and use path deform, but nice idea.

/Thomas

[andre]

yes its a displacement with waterlevel.
i tried it with the displacement of the material as well, masking the holes, but i couldn´t get the same detail as with the modifier.

[mdi]

very good!

[jonnybefree]

nice what are rendertimes?

[andre]

glossy reflections obviously make it slow.
without reflections its about a minute on a amd 4600+.
i think may be geometry renders faster, but that was not the point.

i was thinking of using displacement as a bitmap-driven mold.

[MoonDoggie]

this is blowing my mind, I don't understand how you displaced it with that map...

[posterus]

yea im skratching my a head a bit too. can you post a grab of your displacement settings?
it looks really cool
thanks,
-joe

[sv]

wow, impressive.
water level is such a great feature, really powerful as you demonstrate here.

good stuff.

[powerandrubber]

Really incredible displacement test. Nice mat too! Is there a way to get rid of the "seem" running down the link? Is that from displacement or the mat?

[MoonDoggie]

I suppose I need to check out what this water level thing is.

[andre]

the seam is caused by the fact that the chain is made of 2 objects, one "belt" and a copy with flipped normals.

[bluescreen2]

2d or 3d displace? btw. great job.

[andre]

feel free to explore.

max 8 file + maps:

http://www.01bild.de/files/chain.rar


andre