Roofing - somewhat off topic

[Dman3d]

Does anyone have a tip for making spanish tile roofing?
I have found some textures that will work but I am dreading the idea
of modeling a tile then making an array, does not sound like fun.
I tried displacement but could not really get it to work well.

Any tips? Be nice to have a plug-in for stuff like this, say generic enough
to use for anything from dragon scales to roof tiles.

[Nenad]

Can you post a photograph of what you're intending to model/render?

Regards,

Nenad

[Adrian A. Brown]

funny you should post this. About a month ago I did a test to see if I could do this same thing for a house rendering I never ended up doing.


It wasn't to bad in autocad but I'd hate to try it in Max. I had some problems with it at the corners but I think I know how to fix it if I ever did it for real. Modeling took about 40 mins but I'd hate to do it for a whole house. I did use a displaced shingle on the rendering I posted in the images board and it worked pretty well (vray displacement is so cool). I have to think you simulate it fairly close in the same way, except for the shadows under the tile obviously. Here's a small copy of the textures I use for that image, maybe it will get you some ideas. You guys are welcome to use them if you want.

Good luck
Adrian

[Dman3d]

Thanks Adrian, will give it a try as soon as I get back into exterior mode.
Still poking at interiors for the moment - but thinking in back burner mode
on the exteriors.

[losbellos]

Actually what is on the image is very simple to model..
You just draw the curve (wavy satuff) make a copy, extrude it make cups, then make copies above the others, and then when you finish one side just copy-rotate (90degree) and cut of the uneeded parts. Then you do one tile for the side-connections parts and finish. Array along curve or copy and put them as needed and you're done.
I can make it for ya because this takes really no time.

[DP]

we model ours tile by tile, using slice and cap on the group afterwards if necessary...its the only way we have found them to look 1/2 decent