Roman road

[Crayox13]

I tried several ways of doing this
http://www.caingram.info/Turkey/Pix/Troy_ruins.jpg

Also with texture and displacement (I posted it under problems), but I feel that even if that worked it wouldn't be as good as I want it to. I also tried modeling stones and arranging them but, hm, just not it. Any good approaches you could think of? Or maybe some scripts?

thank you

[duke2]

You should definitely be able to do this by modelling the stones and using displacement. No doubt about it.

[duke2]

This is after 5 minutes:

[Da_elf]

it u convert a simple model to nurbs surface with the right settings you can get that look

[Crayox13]

Am kinda afraid of NURBS, never used them. Only did a tutorial when I was in high school lol.

But I do like the modeling part now again....I had different approach which was...hm...just wrong

Can you show me the wire, before the extrude, and some noise? I was affraid that if I used extrude for the spline, my top would be to flat, but I guess I could add some noise, and mesh smooth before that.

To get the grass between, I would use a plane and just subtract the stones, right? I hope boolean or proboolean wouldn't fail, since it would be pretty complex.

[Resolution01]

Another way you could do it is to use Topology in Max 2010 and select on of the procedural patterns to divide up a plane and then chamfer the edges a little and extrude the stones and with in a few minutes you could have your Roman Road. Hope this helps.

[Da_elf]

seems max2009 handles nurbs surface approximation differently than the older version

[Crayox13]

Don't use MAX 2010

[nirsul]

So get Polyboost - it is the plugin that creates topology in max 2010