cane roofing problem, need help

[Leon_Stoop]

Hi,
I hope you guys can help me out..
I would like to make a cane (is this the right word?) roof, so far it's going allright with displacement but I want to place it 30 degrees on the plane and not 90 degrees as you can see in the image.

Is there a way to change this??
gr,
Leon

[cmejia]

maybe, the uvw map can be modified..?

[dusan]

I don't think it can be done with displacement.

[RErender]

Nope, can't be done, displacement can only go 90, maybe though if made the "roof" surface out of small steps you could get the right effect.

[metroberlin]

but i think it´s not necessary to do THIS with displacement.

[silver]

hey metroberlim, what should be your way to do that? because the first thing wich came to my mind was displacement too, and this is one of the things that i really would like to learn because we use a lot this kind of roof

[Leon_Stoop]

but i think it´s not necessary to do THIS with displacement.

I am open for suggestions, so go ahead and tell me the alternative

[thumpa]

Hi Leon

If you have the internal build of VRay, you could try using the Fur from that.

Alternatively, I have in the past used the Grass-O-Matic plugin. Only available for Max4 (works in 5 though).

http://www.maxplugins.de/r4_files/sisyphus/druid.zip

"A grass generator that can also be used for fur and other hairy things. Part of the demo version of Druid, Grass-O-Matic is fully functional."

Good luck!

Dave

[Josele]

Hi leon. You can modify the UVWmap (gizmo) orintation... to a non perpendicular proyection.

Bye
- Jose

[olivierfR]

Hey,

maybe a skew modifier after the displacement modifier...

Olivier

[dusan]

Hi leon. You can modify the UVWmap (gizmo) orintation... to a non perpendicular proyection.

Bye
- Jose

I think that this will only make distorted pins, they will be wider but still go perpendicular to the surface.

[J_Bug]

Just playing around with this interesting texture and I came up with something that looks ok from a distance but is actually more like sand when you get up close.



It consists of:
.25 Glossiness
redishbrown and bage noise in Diffuse @ 100
sharp edged Perpendicular/ Parallel Falloff in Reflect @ 100
Tight Cellular within a slightly larger and offset tight Cellular in Bump @ 75

olivierfR: VRayDisplacementMod doesn’t recognize modifiers above it.

--Jon

[dbuchhofer]

It also sadly doesn't recognize the Edit Normal modifier..

Something origionally for realtime, but i think it could add some interesting effects into the whole Displacement scene..

[dusan]

Try like this, take that roof plane of yours, and narrow it down, to like 1/200 of its original width. Rotate it 60 degrees from the original plane, put it on the begining of the original plane and copy it 200 -300 times or so up the original plane, you will then make those steps someone mentioned above. I guess it would look ok viewed from a distance.

[Leon_Stoop]

Hi

A lot of replies, thanks for that, I'll explore further..
At the moment I got another assignment so it will take a while to get results again..

gr,
Leon