Map Shingles On a Bell

[glorybound]

How in the heck am I to map shakes in this mad boy?

[rusteberg]

spherical mapping?

[glorybound]

I tried everything. Sphere mapping kind of works, but the bottom shingles were 4X larger than the top. I ended up, chopping it up, and using mapscaler

[mitviz]

that's a simple unwrap

[glorybound]

I got it to work by slicing it in half and UVW map it that way.

[crazy homeless guy]

Wonder if it could have been done with RailClone. It would have given you a library asset that you could apply with a few clicks on future projects.

[cheerioboy]

Wonder if it could have been done with RailClone. It would have given you a library asset that you could apply with a few clicks on future projects.

Care to share more about this? I've only been applying shingles in flat walls/roofs with RailClone.

Bobby, the rendering looks really great!

[glorybound]

I was doing my roofs with Railclone, however, all my clients complained about the roof edges. I started tis roof off in RailClone, but ended up going with displacement.

Wonder if it could have been done with RailClone. It would have given you a library asset that you could apply with a few clicks on future projects.

[glorybound]

Thanks Cheerioboy. I do these houses, for a flat rate, which I guess gives him the liberty in many changes along the way. Yesterday, I had to go back three weeks, to this image, because all the changes he made mucked it up. It's like, "change this and this, oh yeah and this". ending up, "I guess I like the earlier one better ". I expected it, since he will not get charged extra; I did it thinking the houses will look good on my portfoilio.

Care to share more about this? I've only been applying shingles in flat walls/roofs with RailClone.

Bobby, the rendering looks really great!

[cheerioboy]

Thanks Cheerioboy. I do these houses, for a flat rate, which I guess gives him the liberty in many changes along the way. Yesterday, I had to go back three weeks, to this image, because all the changes he made mucked it up. It's like, "change this and this, oh yeah and this". ending up, "I guess I like the earlier one better ". I expected it, since he will not get charged extra; I did it thinking the houses will look good on my portfoilio.

Yeah I've come to expect this sort of experience with designing through renderings - but that's why I went in-house. Now I spend more time on renderings to assist in design than marketing renderings.

[mitviz]

Based on what i see in this video, i think roofs can probably be done here easy, i have yet to try it, free solutions i love them

http://cganimator.com/mcg-quadscatter-1-5/