Wood Shake Roof

[glorybound]

I am starting a monster house and it has wood shakes on the roof. I do a lot of roofs, and with some awesome script I can do pretty good, but I don't have a workflow for wood shakes. These are the un-even kind... any tips?

[Neilg]

make a huge flat sheet, and either duplicate, normal align it and cut to fit or if you're not going with geometry render it from top to create a diffuse, ref, normal & disp map.

[AlexP]

You can achieve this quite easily with Railclone

[glorybound]

it's a very complicated roof, and I don't have time to learn a new plugin, so is it worth pursuing? Cubicleganster, I am not sure I understand your suggestion.

[Neilg]

Make the roof out of flat polygons. have a big sheet of the roofing detailed up as one edit poly with mapping baked in which is bigger than any of the roof segments, then copy that, use normal align & the cut tool in top view to trim it. If you do the material using a multitexture and use material by element you can randomize all the tiles easily.

[beestee]

Have not used these tools myself so I cannot say how they would work for what you need, but they are made for it:

http://www.avizstudio.com/tools/atiles/

http://www.digitalxmodels.com/produc...aces_maxscript

[glorybound]

I use Displacement Roof Surfaces all the time - love it!

[rjohnson33]

I always remember being impressed by the shingles (geometry) on this 'making of' article http://www.ronenbekerman.com/making-...nedict-chapel/

Maybe it's a method you could adapt for your purpose. Creating those large sheets and then using slice at the ridges, valleys and eaves.

[voltron7]

these all sound good, I'm going to try a couple I have not tried yet...So, thanks for your question, Bobby